@bits For an even more basic understanding of concepts, I recommend this PVS Crash Course Computer Science series. This episode walks you through a very basic CPU with a simple instruction set to understand the concepts. I really appreciate the visual step-by-step. The following episodes moves more into assembly. It was a great base for me to start reading more about the more complicated instruction sets in this blog post.

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-central-processing-unit-cpu-crash-course-computer-sci-v5aynn/

#ComputerScience #ComputerProgramming

@bits For an even more basic understanding of concepts, I recommend this PVS Crash Course Computer Science series. This episode walks you through a very basic CPU with a simple instruction set to understand the concepts. I really appreciate the visual step-by-step. The following episodes moves more into assembly. It was a great base for me to start reading more about the more complicated instruction sets in this blog post.

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-central-processing-unit-cpu-crash-course-computer-sci-v5aynn/

#ComputerScience #ComputerProgramming

Real Programmers can kick dead whales along a beach
in any language.

#ComputerProgramming
#MixedTropes
#OneOfThoseDays
#Paraphrase
#SoftwareEngineering

Real Programmers can kick dead whales along a beach
in any language.

#ComputerProgramming
#MixedTropes
#OneOfThoseDays
#Paraphrase
#SoftwareEngineering

It is unfortunate that some contemporary authors still underestimate the role Ada Lovelace played in computer science.

Ada Lovelace at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75107

#womenInStem #computerprogramming

Unpopular opinion: Classic Lisp/Scheme isn't a great first programming language.[1]

When I learned Lisp in school I was incredibly confused by the difference between functional programming in the sense of passing functions and creating macros.

That key distinction and difference is important, and the homoiconicity[3] of Lisp made that distinction less clear than it needed to be.

Teach Scheme second or third if you like, not first.

#Lisp#Scheme#CompterScience#ComputerProgramming

[1] No I'm not talking about LOGO.[2]

[2] If LOGO was your first programming language (it was mine) then you're old.

[3] This is the Fediverse and now I'm sure someone is going to change their username to"Homoiconicity"

Unpopular opinion: Classic Lisp/Scheme isn't a great first programming language.[1]

When I learned Lisp in school I was incredibly confused by the difference between functional programming in the sense of passing functions and creating macros.

That key distinction and difference is important, and the homoiconicity[3] of Lisp made that distinction less clear than it needed to be.

Teach Scheme second or third if you like, not first.

#Lisp#Scheme#CompterScience#ComputerProgramming

[1] No I'm not talking about LOGO.[2]

[2] If LOGO was your first programming language (it was mine) then you're old.

[3] This is the Fediverse and now I'm sure someone is going to change their username to"Homoiconicity"

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There’s only one truly universal ecosystem: the C ecosystem.

Here is my quick and dirty interpretation.

The actual ecosystem of computer programs is the machine language of the architecture they are running on.
Programming in machine language is done in assembly language.
C is (still) the dominant machine-independent assembly language.

NB: this universality excludes the bytecode languages of the JVM etc.

#ComputerProgramming
#ProgrammingLanguages

@amoroso