Well I think my intro was pretty rudimentary. My knowledge of computer architecture is as well, I can tell you what pieces do what, and what a buffer is, but I

Well I think my intro was pretty rudimentary. My knowledge of computer architecture is as well, I can tell you what pieces do what, and what a buffer is, but I couldn't really tell you how memory addressing, logic gates, instruction sets work. Is the JPEG question a test? If so I don't know! The last ones you mentioned sound good, and I think I'll add those to my list and start with Accelerated C++ and see how that feels. I appreciate the info!