On 2007-06-21 14:33, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
I have a cousin who's taking up a programming course. He doesn't have
background with programming nor an in depth understanding of how the
computer works. [...]
[snip excellent material by Oliver]
At
Hello Mark,
I'd like to try and move your understanding on - your enthusiasm is
infectious. In this reply I can only touch on the topics that you raise.
I would wholeheartedly recommend getting a copy of Hennersy Patterson
mentioned in another post - it is excellent.
The first thing I
Hi,
To fully understand things, here's another scenario.
A Hello World program. This time I'm going to dissect all
the processes, as far as I can.
Upon boot up, electric charge fills some capacitors in
the memory in a certain pattern of charged and not charged (1 and 0).
The pattern that was
The BIOS is also simply a piece of software, stored
in a chip on the mainboard.
In memory, a program's bits are represented by the voltages of
transistors in particular places on a DRAM chip. On a CD, by the
width of pits in the surface of the CD. In chips like BIOS and other
types of
If you want to know more details about how a processor
access data in memory, how address bus and data bus
works, how a processor is built up from transistor
functions, I strongly recommend that you buy a good
beginners book of processor design.
Do you have any recommendations?
David King wrote:
The BIOS is also simply a piece of software, stored
in a chip on the mainboard.
In memory, a program's bits are represented by the voltages of
transistors in particular places on a DRAM chip. On a CD, by the
width of pits in the surface of the CD. In chips like BIOS and
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
Let's say I have a very simple washing machine program.
Now it has a timer which the duration of the spinning can be set.
If I press the 3-minute button, wires beneath will get shorted.
Electric current will flow into pin number 5 of the parallel cable
Le Jeu 21 jui 07 à 14:33:56 +0200, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]
écrivait :
I have a cousin who's taking up a programming course. He doesn't have
background with programming nor an in depth understanding of how the
computer works. I tried explaining him that it all started with
Thierry Thomas wrote:
Oliver Fromme wrote:
I have a cousin who's taking up a programming course. He doesn't have
background with programming nor an in depth understanding of how the
computer works. I tried explaining him that it all started with
abacus, and that people wanted
