Comment by EncomLab
12 days ago
Prof. Abelson's original lectures are available on YouTube and WELL worth the time to watch. It's unfortunate that this type of granular understanding of CS is seemingly not taught anymore - might help dampen down the hype cycles of late which equate a computer to a divine being of limitless potential instead of a dumb box full of switches.
My favorite class in college was my fundamentals of computer systems class.
It finally clicked how assembly instructions could draw images on a screen and all the magic inside my computer vanished instantly.
Big fan of dumb switch boxes