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That’s a shame - building logic gates from scratch in red stone was pure joy and absolutely changed the way I think about computers
by jtms 6y ago
That’s a shame - building logic gates from scratch in red stone was pure joy and absolutely changed the way I think about computers
- em-bee 6y agoyup, fond memories from my highschool computer classes. we built logic gates with transistors on handcrafted wooden circuit boards. i don't think i realized the implications then, but over time as i learned programming and other things about computers, i always felt that it gave me a better understanding of what actually goes on behind the scenes. in particular it drives home the reason for why computers work in binary
- jtms 6y agoWow, I wish I had been exposed to this stuff in high school - I had already gotten well into my professional career when I found "Code: the hidden language of computer hardware and software" by Charles Petzold and it was just eureka moment after eureka moment reading that and then building the gates, adders, memory, etc from the diagrams in the book via redstone. One of my favorite learning experiences of all time!