I think it is very important to understand that writing Verilog or VHDL isn't like writing code in a programming language. Programming languages provide instruc

I think it is very important to understand that writing Verilog or VHDL isn't like writing code in a programming language. Programming languages provide instructions to a fixed state machine. With hardware description languages (HDL) you are describing the function of hardware. There are no instructions. It is hard to make good designs without understanding the underlying building blocks of hardware designs.