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These notes provide an outline of the course, including mandatory attendance, grading distribution, required textbooks, and learning objectives aimed at understanding how computers function and are built. A central focus is establishing the differences between Computer Architecture, which defines the operational attributes visible to a programmer (like instruction sets and memory addressing), and Computer Organization, which concerns the physical implementation and interconnection of hardware components. The lecture also covers fundamental concepts such as the structure of the CPU (Central Processing Unit), including the register section and the ALU (Arithmetic/Logic Unit), and the role of various Input/Output devices (peripherals).