[carls]

I've done the Coursera course, Nand2Tetris, that inspired this website [1] and found it deeply intellectually satisfying and engaging.

If anyone is interested in learning about the logical primitives that build up to a computer, and how they're implemented using logic gates, I would deeply recommend the course!

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[1] https://www.nand2tetris.org/

[userbinator]

For a more accessible yet also very comprehensive book, see Petzold's Code: http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/

[JamesSwift]

Whenever someone asks me how a computer works, this is what I tell them to read. No need to qualify the recommendation on their background, the book is accessible to anyone because it starts from first principles and builds layers on top.

[phaemon]

Seconded. And a quick note that this course is based on the book "The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles (The MIT Press)"

[rrwright]

A recommendation for the book. It was excellent.

[exdsq]

Purchased - thanks :)

[trungdq88]

This is an incredible course to learn about low level stuff like computer architecture, micro OP codes, machine language, assembly code, virtual machine...

I implemented the course[1] in Logism[2] but unfortunately the simulation is too slow to run Teris!

[1] https://github.com/trungdq88/16-bit-computer

[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/circuit/

[avmich]

Course materials (projects) seem to contain only slides, with bullet points, not real explanations. Am I missing something? Should I buy the book to actually have the course?

[fuyu]

You are probably looking for the videos on coursera [1].

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer

[ngcc_hk]

Thanks. Even though I am not the op

[Jtsummers]

https://www.nand2tetris.org/course

There are PDFs of each chapter for each project. The icons are (left to right): project, slides, chapter.

[avmich]

Got it, thanks! The whole rectangular felt like a single object, and I always clicked in the center, so missed the other parts.

[wrycoder]

You don’t really need the book for the first half of the course, but I found it very helpful for the second half. More so than the vids, which got boring due to repetition.

[brian_cunnie]

Seconded a second time. Very hard, and very worthwhile.