Nand2tetris

A continuation of my participation in the amazing Nand2Tetris course, by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken, now running on Coursera. Related posts: [DIY Computer Part 1 The NAND Gate]({% post_url 2016-03-06-diy-computer-nands %}) [DIY Computer Part 2 The ALU]({% post_url 2016-03-12-diy-computer-alu %}) [DIY Computer Part 3 Memory]({% post_url 2016-03-12-diy-computer-alu %}) [DIY Computer Part 4 Machine Language]({% post_url 2016-05-23-diy-computer-ml %}) Now armed with the necessary elementary logic gates and chips, are now ready to assemble a general purpose computer. Using a finite amount of hardware, it will be capable of performing practically an infinite number of tasks (e.g. games, word processing, networking). This remarkable flexibility, the fruit of the profound invention of several mathematicians in the 1930’s, is known as the stored program. ...

A continuation of my participation in the amazing Nand2Tetris course, by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken, now running on Coursera. In this course you will build a modern computer system, from the ground up. We’ll take you from constructing elementary logic gates all the way through creating a fully functioning general purpose computer. In the process, you will learn how really computers work, and how they are designed. If interested, see prior posts: ...

A continuation of my participation in the amazing Nand2Tetris course, by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken, now running on Coursera. In this course you will build a modern computer system, from the ground up. We’ll take you from constructing elementary logic gates all the way through creating a fully functioning general purpose computer. In the process, you will learn how really computers work, and how they are designed. If interested, see prior related post [DIY Computer Part 1 The NAND Gate]({% post_url 2016-03-06-diy-computer-nands %}). ...

I love computers. When I recently discovered that the Nand2Tetris guys, Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken, had just packaged their famous course into a neat 12 week Coursera package, I couldn’t resist studying it any longer. In this course you will build a modern computer system, from the ground up. We’ll take you from constructing elementary logic gates all the way through creating a fully functioning general purpose computer. In the process, you will learn how really computers work, and how they are designed. ...