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Digital logic resources for youth
My son (11) has recently become quite interested in digital logic - designing adders and multipliers based on logic gates. So far he's mostly done this in minecraft with redstone or on paper. It works okay, but it is somewhat limiting. He'd like to understand how to design a full simplified computer. This is far from my area of expertise.
- Are there good books on the subject for kids his age? I think he (and I) would be okay with a big text book, but introductory texts or projects might work better. At least something that introduces the major components and how they function and interact.
- What are good simulators which would allow this to be created and visualized? I'm not totally opposed to doing this with physical electronic components, but a simulator feels like it would be simpler.
In my searching I wasn't able to find a happy medium between full professional digital design and super simple digital logic introduction, but missing the creation of all components of a simple computer. Thanks for the help.
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- detaro 9y agoThere is http://nand2tetris.org/course.php http://nand2tetris.org/course.php for some materials up to a working computer. Not sure if suitable for a kid though. http://www.cburch.com/logisim/ http://www.cburch.com/logisim/ is a logic simulator that's a bit clunky to use, but not terribly buggy like some others and powerful enough to build a simple CPU in it. (See this https://github.com/reds-heig/logisim-evolution https://github.com/reds-heig/logisim-evolution for a list of maintained forks, but for starting out there shouldn't be anything wrong with the original)
- cuttjoe 9y agoYou could try https://logic.ly/demo/ https://logic.ly/demo/ or the much older http://www.shsu.edu/csc_tjm/fall2003/cs272/dworks_howto.html http://www.shsu.edu/csc_tjm/fall2003/cs272/dworks_howto.html