I'll second the recommendation. ISBN 0-7356-0505-X. Recommend the hardcover
print edition, it's nice. Published by Microsoft Press
On Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 at 9:32 AM, Peter Hull <[email protected]>
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> On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 at 21:31, Brian L. Stuart via 9fans [email protected] wrote:
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> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 03:23:26PM +0200, sirjofri via 9fans wrote:
> >
> > > I'd like to see learning material or a course that starts at these basic
> > > things. Like, tell people what a transistor is and how it works, explain
> > > to the the fundamentals of a (simple) CPU, maybe on a breadboard. Then
> > > start to dive into programming by actually programming that machine as if
> > > you're driving a car or knitting socks, and so on. If someone has any
> > > experience with an approach like that (from a teaching perspective), I'd
> > > like to know more about it.
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>
> You might enjoy "Code" by Charles Petzold - I bought it for my
> daughter and ended up reading it myself. It starts with sending
> messages to a friend with a flashlight and goes through braille, morse
> code, logic gates, decoders, cpus, up to assembly language.
>
> Peter
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