Difference between revisions of "IBook How Computers Work"
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** Mechanical calculators | ** Mechanical calculators | ||
*** Addition, subtraction, multiplication, divisions... | *** Addition, subtraction, multiplication, divisions... | ||
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** Electricity | ** Electricity | ||
*** properties: easy storage, easy distribution, easy generation, fast, easy control | *** properties: easy storage, easy distribution, easy generation, fast, easy control | ||
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** Shannon: Combining Logic and arithmetic | ** Shannon: Combining Logic and arithmetic | ||
** From the transistor to logic gates | ** From the transistor to logic gates | ||
| + | * Logic Design | ||
** Logic gate simulator | ** Logic gate simulator | ||
| + | * Assembly Language | ||
| + | * Example of a High Level Language: Processing | ||
| + | * From Moore's Law to the Singularity. | ||
Revision as of 14:58, 23 January 2013
--D. Thiebaut 16:05, 18 January 2013 (EST)
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Why
- Target
- Introduction
- Steam Boy
- Mechanical calculators
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication, divisions...
- Several factors: electrical energy, switches, ON/OFF, binary, number systems, math, boolean logic, Shannon ==> Computer
- 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
- Electricity
- Logic Design
- Logic gate simulator
- Assembly Language
- Example of a High Level Language: Processing
- From Moore's Law to the Singularity.
