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Approximately how long does a curriculum like that take?

by uoaei 5y ago

burnished 5y ago
You would cover all of that material in an intro to digital logic course (no prereqs). I found it a very enjoyable topic to learn. I don't think it would be too difficult to learn on your own. I would try to find a course that included a lab component, testing things out on a bread board is very fun. Sole caveat; debugging circuits can be a challenge if you don't have anyone to help and you're learning.
- michaelt 5y ago
  You say "no prereqs" but I can assure you, it takes more than a single intro course to go from "I don't know what programming is, or the difference between voltage and current" to understanding a microcontroller at a logic gate level.
  - burnished 5y ago
    Re-read the list of topics that person provides. They are all authentically covered in a single no pre-reqs course. I took an 'Intro To Digital Logic" course a couple years ago hence my confidence about this.
bakuninsbart 5y ago
This is a very cool and playful introduction to the basics of the topic: https://nandgame.com/ https://nandgame.com/
Panzer04 5y ago
I got a pretty solid foundation in embedded from ~1 year worth of uni EE courses. Learn a bit of Arduino, learn a bit of VHDL, fiddle with some registers and you're 90% of the way there. The last 10% comes from finding a job and just spending a lot of time learning all the other little pieces you need.
drBonkers 5y ago
I learned most of this in a first pass through Crash Course's Computer Science playlist. Episodes 2 – 10 discuss the electronics [1]. I normally dislike videos and prefer books, but these were well done. They did an excellent job of pointing out the specific abstractions of each component as they are introduced. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0ucKNX0hc&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6jN9ulIgZBpdo&index=3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0ucKNX0hc&list=PL8dPuuaLjX...

33 ms·

Approximately how long does a curriculum like that take?

by uoaei 5y ago

Approximately how long does a curriculum like that take?

burnished 5y ago
You would cover all of that material in an intro to digital logic course (no prereqs). I found it a very enjoyable topic to learn. I don't think it would be too difficult to learn on your own. I would try to find a course that included a lab component, testing things out on a bread board is very fun. Sole caveat; debugging circuits can be a challenge if you don't have anyone to help and you're learning.
- michaelt 5y ago
  You say "no prereqs" but I can assure you, it takes more than a single intro course to go from "I don't know what programming is, or the difference between voltage and current" to understanding a microcontroller at a logic gate level.
  - burnished 5y ago
    Re-read the list of topics that person provides. They are all authentically covered in a single no pre-reqs course. I took an 'Intro To Digital Logic" course a couple years ago hence my confidence about this.
bakuninsbart 5y ago
This is a very cool and playful introduction to the basics of the topic: https://nandgame.com/ https://nandgame.com/
Panzer04 5y ago
I got a pretty solid foundation in embedded from ~1 year worth of uni EE courses. Learn a bit of Arduino, learn a bit of VHDL, fiddle with some registers and you're 90% of the way there. The last 10% comes from finding a job and just spending a lot of time learning all the other little pieces you need.
drBonkers 5y ago
I learned most of this in a first pass through Crash Course's Computer Science playlist. Episodes 2 – 10 discuss the electronics [1]. I normally dislike videos and prefer books, but these were well done. They did an excellent job of pointing out the specific abstractions of each component as they are introduced. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0ucKNX0hc&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6jN9ulIgZBpdo&index=3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0ucKNX0hc&list=PL8dPuuaLjX...