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by liendolucas
490 days ago
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I can't see how SICP is better than Nand2Tetris. To be clear: none of them are better than the other simply because these are two completely different books, both in their approach style how explain things and their contents. You are basically comparing apples to oranges. If you know nothing about computers Nand2Tetris and Code by Charles Petzold are two books that will make you clearly understand how a computer works in a constructively way. SICP starts with an already running Scheme, so the computer and the language are already there. |
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Whenever I talk to people who rave about SICP I get the feeling they never made it to chapter 4 and beyond.
> In this chapter we will describe processes in terms of the step-by-step operation of a traditional computer. Such a computer, or register machine, sequentially executes instructions that manipulate the contents of a fixed set of storage elements called registers. A typical register-machine instruction applies a primitive operation to the contents of some registers and assigns the result to another register. Our descriptions of processes executed by register machines will look very much like ``machine-language'' programs for traditional computers.
https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...
The transistor level simulation happens in 3.3.4 "A Simulator for Digital Circuits".