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We had a course like that and I absolutely loved it. It's the most fun I've ever had in an educational setting. It followed such a lovely flow, starting with t
by mavamaarten 2y ago
We had a course like that and I absolutely loved it. It's the most fun I've ever had in an educational setting.
It followed such a lovely flow, starting with the absolute lowest level of computing (binary maths, diodes, transistors, and building logic gates with these) and kept on combining these building blocks until we arrived at modern computers and software.
Even if you're just a "modern age" developer that only ever uses modern programming languages, just understanding how everything is built makes you make better decisions all around.
- jatins 2y agoAny books/courses like that out in the open?
- torlok 2y agoGo through the Ben Eater channel on YouTube. It'll get you up to speed with early 80s computing. Computers quickly stop feeling like magic after you grasp the basics. Watching him build a VGA card should be enough to intuit how Pong was made.
- jburgess777 2y agoOne which gets mentioned often is NAND 2 Tetris, which starts with basic logic gates and progresses to produce a simple computer: https://www.nand2tetris.org/ https://www.nand2tetris.org/
- cweagans 2y agoAlso try nandgame.com