The Foundations of Computer Design
Learn the foundations of computer design with this detailed course. Understand binary numbers, logic gates, memory chips, and CPU registers. Build your own basic central processing unit. Perfect for beginners and computer professionals looking to expand their knowledge. Start your journey towards becoming a computer science expert today.
What you’ll learn
- Know what binary numbers are and how to do basic math with them
- Know how a computer uses electricity to do computations
- Design and program a basic, but working, CPU and memory circuit
- Be able to define and understand basic assembly and machine code
Learn how a computer works with this basic, but detailed course on the foundations of computer design. In this course you will learn how a computer really works and by the end you will be able to understand the design of a programmable central processing unit. This class is the foundation of a computer science curriculum.
Designing your first computer!
- Learn binary and hexadecimal numbers
- Understand logic gates
- Recognize multiplexers decoders and the ALU
- Learn how to design memory chips and CPU registers
- Build a basic central processing unit
A building block to more advanced computer topics
This course starts from the ground up and completes with a fully functioning programmable computer. Advanced computer design topics such as power or speed optimizations are not covered but all the information needed to understand basic computer design is packed into this course. A total beginner will likely need to repeat a few of the lectures but it can be understood by anyone who takes the time to study each of the lectures. Anyone who desires to become a computer science expert must know how processors really work and this course is the first step towards that goal.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for students who desire to know how a basic computer is designed and programmed
- Computer professionals who were never exposed to assembly programming may also find this course useful.
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