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This would have been so cool as a book! (Any recommendations?) I lack the patience to watch YouTube videos though...

by dagss 9y ago

zerd 9y ago
There's the From Nand to Tetris [1] course which has a book. It skips a few steps though. I love Ben Eater's series because it is so thorough. Whenever I'm like "how did x work again" he explains it in detail. If you know most of it by heart it will be slow since it's meant to be able to follow with fairly little prior knowledge of digital electronics. [1] http://nand2tetris.org http://nand2tetris.org
- vram22 9y ago
  With fairly little, or even with none?
Someone 9y ago
I prefer prose, too, but found these videos to be very good, both in the way they are told and the way he split the content into parts. For example, he sometimes goes a bit too much into basics such as ones' complement vs two's complement for me, but that's in separate videos, so you can easily skip that.
zurkog 9y ago
This was so cool as a book. Ben Eater did a fantastic job of making these videos, explaining each concept, but the computer he builds (the SAP, or Simple As Possible) is directly from "Digital Computer Electronics" (c) 1977 by Albert Paul Malvino. He even goes so far as to mention it and shows a copy of the book in his first video: https://youtu.be/HyznrdDSSGM?t=49 https://youtu.be/HyznrdDSSGM?t=49 I stumbled across the book 4 years ago when I followed this instructable: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-an-8-Bit-Computer/ http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-an-8-Bit-Comput... The instructable is nowhere near as detailed as Ben's videos, but it was all I had at the time, and it recommended that book. Note: when I purchased the book 4 years ago, it was only $5, now I'm seeing it for upwards of $99: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0070398615/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0070398615/ The paperback is only $22, but it lists an additional author not present on the 1977 version, so I don't know if it's the exact same book.

This would have been so cool as a book! (Any recommendations?) I lack the patience to watch YouTube videos though...

by dagss 9y ago

This would have been so cool as a book! (Any recommendations?) I lack the patience to watch YouTube videos though...

zerd 9y ago

There's the From Nand to Tetris [1] course which has a book. It skips a few steps though. I love Ben Eater's series because it is so thorough. Whenever I'm like "how did x work again" he explains it in detail. If you know most of it by heart it will be slow since it's meant to be able to follow with fairly little prior knowledge of digital electronics. [1] http://nand2tetris.org http://nand2tetris.org

vram22 9y ago
With fairly little, or even with none?

Someone 9y ago

I prefer prose, too, but found these videos to be very good, both in the way they are told and the way he split the content into parts. For example, he sometimes goes a bit too much into basics such as ones' complement vs two's complement for me, but that's in separate videos, so you can easily skip that.

zurkog 9y ago

This was so cool as a book. Ben Eater did a fantastic job of making these videos, explaining each concept, but the computer he builds (the SAP, or Simple As Possible) is directly from "Digital Computer Electronics" (c) 1977 by Albert Paul Malvino. He even goes so far as to mention it and shows a copy of the book in his first video: https://youtu.be/HyznrdDSSGM?t=49 https://youtu.be/HyznrdDSSGM?t=49 I stumbled across the book 4 years ago when I followed this instructable: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-an-8-Bit-Computer/ http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-an-8-Bit-Comput... The instructable is nowhere near as detailed as Ben's videos, but it was all I had at the time, and it recommended that book. Note: when I purchased the book 4 years ago, it was only $5, now I'm seeing it for upwards of $99: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0070398615/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0070398615/ The paperback is only $22, but it lists an additional author not present on the 1977 version, so I don't know if it's the exact same book.