[Eug-lug] NAND gates to Tetris

[Bob Miller]

Rainy Saturday diversion...

Have you guys seen this?  It's an introductory CS textbook that takes
the student from simple boolean logic circuits up through successive
layers of abstraction to a working game (not necessarily Tetris).  At
the end of the term, the student has a game that he understands at
every level all the way down to the gates.

    Boolean Logic
    Combinatorial Chips
    Sequential Chips
    Machine Language
    Computer Architecture
    Assembler
    Virtual Machine I: Arithmetic
    Virtual Machine II: Machine Control
    Programming Language
    Compiler I: Syntax Analysis
    Compiler II: Code Generation
    Operating System
    More Fun to Go (an open project?)

Verrah cool!

Some chapters of the book are on line, and all the exercises are.  I
did the first two chapters' exercises this morning, and plan to do
more later.  (My education is a little skimpy on the lower levels, so
I can use it.)

There are also some videos.

Main page: http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/

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Bob Miller                              K<bob>
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