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I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs

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Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs

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You are a very skilled technical writer. One way to discern this is asking at a given point, "What question just likely popped into their mind after what they have read?" (you don't have to be right, just close) ... and importantly, "Do they need a little break from the main outline?" Your brief tangents in light blue are a perfect answer to both questions. Your terminal examples show what things really look like, or…

Exactly

Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs

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I'm glad you enjoyed it! > It's also a very good idea to write these types of resources when you teach yourself something new because it clarifies your thought process and helps you identify parts that are still unclear even though you initially thought you understadn them etc. I found this to be very much the case. As I wrote the article, I discovered so many things that I didn't properly understand. It partially to…

The most important reason to write this while learning is that you only once have the questions of someone who doesn't know the topic. As soon as you learn it, you forget what it was like to not know it. Fron that point on, you've always known it. That's why writing down all your questions while learning is extremely important for then teaching.

I agree, the curse of knowledge is so strong. It's so hard to be a beginner again. I like spending time with beginners in things I know well before I start writing tutorials.

Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs

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Hi! Great job! I really enjoyed reading this mini-book and I'm recommending my friends in college to read it. It mentions a lot of topics that we studied during an "Operating Systems" course.

We don't have HackClub here where I live, thus I never heard of it, but what they do sounds awesome and inspires me to promote it or even start it here (especially since there's no HackClub in Ukraine).

Thank you for sharing this experience, it was one of the best reads I had in a while!

Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs

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Very nice guide! I love your writing style, and your research skills are clearly top-notch. Great stuff! You might enjoy reading some articles by Julia Evans ( https://jvns.ca/ ), who has a similar informal, conversational, exploratory style. Stay curious!

I am very glad you liked it! Julia Evans is one of my biggest inspirations ever. I have a lot of her zines. SHE ACTUALLY READ MY ARTICLE EARLIER AND I JUST ABOUT EXPLODED https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1689331862487932928

WHOOOO! Congratulations, that's awesome!

Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs

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This is a really cool project, kind of touches a point about the history of computers as we know them now, a wealth of information can be found on classic books such as “The art of computer programming” by Knuth, this is more related to how things work now which has changed a lot over the years but the basics are still there.

Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs

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Wow, so because you're 17 we should click on this article? I was 17 also some time ago

" Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead. " " Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

True, sorry
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