They will be disabused of any of those notions simply by reading the relevant portions of the architecture handbook. In a pedagogical environment that's very simple to arrange.
Someone who is just learning to program will not be well served by reading a modern CPU architecture handbook. It is far too complex for someone who doesn't even know yet what a graph is, for example.
Someone who is just learning to program will not be well served by reading a modern CPU architecture handbook. It is far too complex for someone who doesn't even know yet what a graph is, for example.