[GTALUG] OT: From Nand to Tetris MOOC

Alvin Starr alvin at netvel.net
Mon Mar 21 22:07:52 UTC 2016


On 03/21/2016 04:33 PM, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
> Might be of interest to the list: I just finished reading "Turing's 
> Cathedral" by George Dyson about the early days of digital computers 
> (and a very cool account of the first cellular automaton running in 5K 
> memory!) and - looking for more information about Boolean algebra and 
> logic - came across this free online course that builds a virtual 
> machine from first principles ...
>
> https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer
> http://nand2tetris.org/
>
> Next session starts March 28.

Or you could try this 
https://archive.org/details/howtobuildaworkingdigitalcomputer_jun67
They has this book in my high-school library and it sort of got me hooked.

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