That'll be next. I assume compilers exist as there are still some video tutorials on it, but will look into it more when I get there. Right now, I'm reading Charles Petzold's book, Code, to learn basic concepts. Do you know it? It's awesome. I'm also watching the Nand to Tetras series. I'm not actually "building a computer", but it's helpful as they walk through binary and boolean concepts, etc. I get booleans in principle but they're super hard for me to work out once you get past simple T/F, ie, once more than 2 things are introduced, so I really have to slow down and work through examples to teach my brain.
No, I am not familiar with that book. It sounds like a good place to start. When I started, I started with BASIC . My father teased me and said real programmers use Assembly Language. Being right brained, that did not work out well for me, so I went with the next best thing, a low level language- C.. Plain C. It made sense and I learned a lot. I wish I could remember some of the books but don’t
I was holding out the possibility that I could read Code and then skip right to C. But if Assembly was hard for you, I assume it will be for me, too, even after reading Petzold, which makes me realize I'll need to tackle it.
Petzold wrote his book in the late 90's, so I'm wondering if that was after you were learning?
Are you trying to learn assembly language? Is that still a thing? (As in do compilers still exists for it)
That'll be next. I assume compilers exist as there are still some video tutorials on it, but will look into it more when I get there. Right now, I'm reading Charles Petzold's book, Code, to learn basic concepts. Do you know it? It's awesome. I'm also watching the Nand to Tetras series. I'm not actually "building a computer", but it's helpful as they walk through binary and boolean concepts, etc. I get booleans in principle but they're super hard for me to work out once you get past simple T/F, ie, once more than 2 things are introduced, so I really have to slow down and work through examples to teach my brain.
No, I am not familiar with that book. It sounds like a good place to start. When I started, I started with BASIC . My father teased me and said real programmers use Assembly Language. Being right brained, that did not work out well for me, so I went with the next best thing, a low level language- C.. Plain C. It made sense and I learned a lot. I wish I could remember some of the books but don’t
I was holding out the possibility that I could read Code and then skip right to C. But if Assembly was hard for you, I assume it will be for me, too, even after reading Petzold, which makes me realize I'll need to tackle it.
Petzold wrote his book in the late 90's, so I'm wondering if that was after you were learning?
Here we go, this was one of my prized books - https://www.amazon.com/Art-C-Programming-Robin-Jones/dp/0387963928
I think you will do fine with C. Funny thing, I never got the hang of C++ and object oriented programming either
Oh look what we have here: https://elhacker.info/manuales/Lenguajes%20de%20Programacion/C/The%20Art%20of%20C%20Programming%20-%20Jones%20and%20Stewart.pdf
Cool - thanks for these :) !
PS Are you thinking of taking up programming again?