From a NAND Gate To Tetris · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Unknown on Monday October 15, 2012 @07:07PM from the artisinal-programming dept.

mikejuk writes "Long before the current crop of MOOCs (Massive Online Open Course) there was a course that taught you all you needed to know about computers by starting from the NAND gate and working its way up through the logic circuits needed for a computer, on to an assembler, a compiler, an operating system, and finally Tetris. Recently one of the creators of the course, Shimon Schocken, gave a TED talk explaining how it all happened and why it is still relevant today. Once you have seen what is on offer at http://www.nand2tetris.org/ you will probably decide that it is not only still relevant but the only way to really understand what computers are all about."

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NAND Gate by zippo01 · 2012-10-15 19:24 · Score: 4, Funny

I watched this video and it really does seem like it would be a fun course! I'm not really sure about the whole God giving man NAND. Though that is prolly why my belief in God is 11. Hah, what a crappy NAND joke.