G+_Kenneth Longcrier (Chie Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Finally caught up with coding 101 Episode 51. Listening to Steve, I have to agree that the knowledge of computer hardware is both critical and missing from current curricula in many college programs. (I wonder how many computer majors could explain the usage of a 1s complement or 2s complement...) When the Navy trained me to repair computers (Many many years ago.) We were taught troubleshooting to the NOR gate level (trust me, with electronics, everything is a NOR gate.) As well as Assembly programming (lovely Binary coded octal) Understanding how computers work on this kind of fundamental level has paid dividends in my understanding of problems over the course of my career as a software developer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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