Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris
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Re: Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris
#2Looks like an interesting course, though the submission process seems unpleasant compared to other courses I've taken in the past.
Re: Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris
#3Interesting. Anyone know if it's updated from [0]? Wonder if it'll just use the same Software. The book [1] was interesting.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-P...
Re: Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris
#4I've been going through the book and it's been great fun so far.
Recommend!
Re: Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris
#5Interesting. Anyone know if it's updated from [0]? Wonder if it'll just use the same Software. The book [1] was interesting. [0] http://nand2tetris.org/ [1] https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-P...
Looks like it's still the same course although with video lectures added
Re: Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris
#6Interesting. Anyone know if it's updated from [0]? Wonder if it'll just use the same Software. The book [1] was interesting. [0] http://nand2tetris.org/ [1] https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-P...
I finished it a couple of months ago. It uses the exact same structure and software as described in the book (HACK language, etc).
The included hands-on projects made it more fun and interesting. Basically you'll build a simple computer from the ground up, starting with flip-flops and going all the up up to ALU, memory and CPU.
The grader works well, so you can submit your code and it'll grade you in realtime. You can finish it in less than a month, if you have experience with electronics and Boolean logic.
Re: Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris
#7If you are self taught, you owe it to yourself to take this course. It's the best tie together class I've ever seen, and made a world of difference to me.
Note that this is one the first half of the coursework, I'm still waiting for the second part.
Seriously, if you're self taught, and have been writing code for a while, this and a great compiler course will take you to a new level.
Re: Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris
#8Amazing... I really love this course. I teach it to my students it is great!
Re: Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris
#9Interesting. Anyone know if it's updated from [0]? Wonder if it'll just use the same Software. The book [1] was interesting. [0] http://nand2tetris.org/ [1] https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-P...
I finished it a couple of months ago. It uses the exact same structure and software as described in the book (HACK language, etc). The included hands-on projects made it more fun and interesting. Basically you'll build a simple computer from the ground up, starting with flip-flops and going all the up up to ALU, memory and CPU. The grader works well, so you can submit your code and it'll grade you in realtime. You ca…
I've gone through the book and got as far as building the computer, writing the assembler and running some programs on it. Does the course go beyond this? I haven't built the virtual machine or written the compiler, but it looked like from the description of the course, they didn't do that either.
Re: Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris
#10Sadly it looks like the course stops at week 6 after the assembler has been implemented. The next steps in the book are to implement the VM, compiler and develop programs in the high level language you've implemented.
I started the book back in August and got as far as implementing the lexical analysis in the compiler, I was kinda hoping this course would give the the push to finish everything.