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--[[User:Thiebaut|D. Thiebaut]] 16:05, 18 January 2013 (EST)
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=Table of Contents=
* Preface
** Why
** Target
* Introduction
** Steam Boy
** Mechanical calculators 
*** Addition, subtraction, multiplication, divisions...
** Electricity
*** properties: easy storage, easy distribution, easy generation, fast, easy control
*** ON/OFF
** Binary system versus decimal system.
** Boolean Logic, George Boole.
** Logic with electricity and switches
** Shannon: Combining Logic and arithmetic
** From the transistor to logic gates
** Logic gate simulator