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What's the bottom? You clearly have something in mind, but why not starting with logic gates and work up to assembly? That is also a valid approach, and it work
by scott_s 13y ago
What's the bottom? You clearly have something in mind, but why not starting with logic gates and work up to assembly? That is also a valid approach, and it works up to what you consider the bottom of the stack.
I do computer systems research. I am a big proponent of knowing how computer systems work. But I think people have an unhealthy fetish for how we start learning. You start once. You learn the rest of your life. Where you start is not the most important thing.
- AnimalMuppet 13y agoBah. The bottom of the stack is quantum mechanics and solid state physics. From there, you learn how individual transistors work. From that, you build up to logic gates. I actually know something about those levels. But in 25 years as a professional programmer, the lowest level I've ever actually needed to use was at the gate level (PAL equations to generate chip selects by decoding addresses - if it wasn't in a PAL, it would be just equations).