Hi everyone! I work with computers pretty much every day, but know shamefully little about what actually goes on inside them. I've been trying to remedy that recently by learning some of the (very) basics, and I thought it'd be fun to make a few videos about it along the way. It's a bit different from my usual content, but I hope you'll enjoy it anyway :) Edit: I see there’s some interest in getting access to the little simulation tool I made. It’s not in a very user friendly state at the moment, but I’ll see about polishing it up and releasing it for free sometime soon! Edit2: The simulation tool is now available here: sebastian.itch.io/digital-logic-sim Along with source code over here: github.com/SebLague/Digital-Logic-Sim If you'd like to support me in creating more videos about programming, game development, etc. I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon www.patreon.com/SebastianLague

@drjoriv

3 жыл бұрын

As a computer science master student, I am always learning somethings new from you even though I am in school rn

@GloriousAssam

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't watched this yet either, I was just commenting in the hopes of finding your ear. Your video on planets, raymarching.. always been hoping to do something involving raymarching (so anything further on that in future would be appreciated), but one question specifically about the collisions.. were they provided automatically by Unity as part of a mesh (I am unlikely to use Unity - webgl), were you using compute shaders, or something else in order to provide collisions? I haven't found much on this part, rendering the graphics being one challenge but to be able to receive back information on the collisions (so as to not phase through objects). I wasn't able to infer it from your video. Thanks!

@chrisgaming9567

3 жыл бұрын

I really liked this one

@duckles426

3 жыл бұрын

This is actually more in depth than most "Basics of Computing" explainers go, which i really liked. Keep up the good stuff :)

@omerfarukbykl6097

3 жыл бұрын

Will you share the source code for the tool?

"I am not too good at giving instructions" *Makes a simulation that can simulate what it's being ran on*

@Yamyatos

2 жыл бұрын

That's kinda the thing about touring complete systems tho. Since they can do anything, they can literally simulate themselves. Not considering FPS, you could programm all of Factorio inside Factorio for example. Or inside the game of life. Or, well, in the above :P

@gabponponne4525

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@joaozin003

2 жыл бұрын

Minecraft... ?

@transcent7

2 жыл бұрын

@@joaozin003 yup, players already made working computers inside minecraft that are made without any mods.

@TinyDeskEngineer

2 жыл бұрын

@@transcent7 now they just need to make a 1-bit color version of Minecraft using a redstone lamp screen

as a programmer watching this made me realize how privileged i am to live in a time when high level programming languages exist. can't imagine what the computer pioneers had to go through. mad respect for them.

@maktiki

Жыл бұрын

Flipping switches and punchin holes in cards

@kato_dsrdr

Жыл бұрын

Bruh. They program without even a screen and keyboard.

@GriffinFamilyVlogs

Жыл бұрын

Real

@Scout-uj1fj

Жыл бұрын

We have missed out on the fun stuff :(

@m.h.m7509

Жыл бұрын

@@Scout-uj1fj really 😐😐

There's a game called Turing Complete that's perfect for this sort of study. It takes you from making a NOT gate all the way to writing assembly programs that run on the computer you eventually build. I strongly recommend.

@yumikotanashi

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for this it's lovely

@kingagora

Жыл бұрын

link to the game?

@angelcore1669

Жыл бұрын

@@kingagora it’s on steam

@iambeloved496

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@alansmithee419

Жыл бұрын

Played this. You eventually build a turing complete CPU. I have done that and still have no clue how it works (though I certainly understand it much better than previously). Much harder to comprehend the totality of the system than it is to understand each of the individual steps along the way to building it. It is *so* satisfying to run assembly code on a CPU you *built yourself from scratch.* It's just a feeling of "holy **** this thing I made actually works." Really gives you an appreciation for the people who invented all this stuff *without* knowing it was all possible before they started. Edit: Also the game gets you to solve everything in this video on your own, rather than telling you how to do it which is fun. (yes, everything, including figuring out the format of negative numbers on your own, which it prompts you to do, but it doesn't tell you how).

I got lost halfway through, but this was so well made and clear to see I'm still fascinated! Thank you for making these! I always struggled with this and it made a bit more sense today.

@eliasz61

10 ай бұрын

Same lol. Beginning to think I may be non-binary 😂

@Svetlec

7 ай бұрын

a BIT more sense? (Haha binary bits ae fun

@oussematoussli8085

4 ай бұрын

@@Svetlec HHHHHHHHHHH THATS FUNNY

You're actually explaining my university course far clearer than my lecturer lol. Love the videos

@Ayrton3326

3 жыл бұрын

same. I wish universities watched youtube videos on the subject to get better ideas of how to explain stuff

@DerXavia

3 жыл бұрын

I did this in school and its not really complicated? Didn't you play around with minecraft redstone?

@Luminalmvm

3 жыл бұрын

@@DerXavia I'm definitely more of a visual learner and they just describe it all instead of showing it like this. Unironically maybe I should have mc open while watching online lectures and build the logic gates lmao

@allysonmardegan1484

3 жыл бұрын

I can tell the same

@Drastonar

3 жыл бұрын

I came here to write the same comment! The two's complement explanation was the best I've seen.

this might just be the most concise explanation of how to get from a transistor to an ALU

It always blows my mind trying to figure out how we got from simple earth materials to a computer. How when arranged just right and using electrons to flip ones and zeros you can make a virtual world that can be interacted with. Not even for work or anything either, this technology is so standardized that everyone uses it for just about anything you can think of. Most have no idea how it works but they don't even need to. It's so incredibly advanced and new yet people treat computers like they're any other tool. Imagine trying to explain how a phone works to someone living in the Roman Republic. How could you even convince them that it's made from the metals and earthy materials found all around them?

@iliaaaaaaa

Жыл бұрын

the same thoughts i was going through.

@seavs1

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Thought about that too many times. Its pretty nuts actually.

@hpa4355

Жыл бұрын

I'd argue that it isnt really made out of simple earth material. It is not like you can take a rock and a stick and build an ALU. You do have to perform extreme refinement of the materials, accumulation of knowledge and techniques, and mass industrialization to reach these technologies, so it is a matter of scale. I am although amazed, like you, by what we managed to accomplished from being able to put and miniaturize very basic components together. You should get a look at this video/article where a designer tried making a toaster from scratch.

@Topghee1234

Жыл бұрын

@@hpa4355 But bro/sis, it all comes from earth before the refinement, techniques, knowledge, accumulation ....... isn't it.

@kgosiphoma

11 ай бұрын

The Elohim helped your leaders do everything. Also modern technology isn’t new at all, it is actually a backwards movement compared to our ancient civilisations which will come back to light soon.

As a senior electrical and computer engineering student, this has been the best video I've seen in awhile! Explained the core of digital systems in a simple and intuitive way. Subscribed

@motorinmysoup9912

2 ай бұрын

Do you think your electrical and computer engineering degree has been worth it? I’m heavily considering switching from CS to ECE because I like embedded and circuits more than just software but I’m still unsure.

@ant_six

Ай бұрын

@@motorinmysoup9912 One hundred percent. Extremely versatile degree and not as saturated. I switched from aerospace to electrical and one of the best decisions i’ve made. I can work in aeronautics as an electrical engineer, but not vice versa. Same goes EE and CMPS, which requires a good bit programming anyways.

@ant_six

Ай бұрын

@@motorinmysoup9912 Just read the other half of your comment. Digital and embedded systems required a good bit of knowledge on both the hardware and software. I did some programming before college, but I found EE courses gave me a much more cohesive picture of the whole as a system. Wish you the best of luck my friend

Quite frankly, the most impressive thing about this video is how easily he puts components into a breadboard

@3631162

3 жыл бұрын

ikr. im usually fiddling around to put shit inside. not just with breadboards. I think the problem is more fundamental..

@rikschaaf

3 жыл бұрын

I heard from Ben Eater that this is caused by the quality of the breadboard. He made a video about it a while back.

@SimonTiger

3 жыл бұрын

Ben Eater uses BB830 breadboards, which are very high quality. Maybe Sebastian uses them as well, but I'm not sure.

@omayoperations8423

3 жыл бұрын

Quite true; and that's sad. Not for him, but me.

@statlanta_

3 жыл бұрын

LMAOOOOO

I'm suprised with every thing, from how computers work to how he can make the lines look so beautiful

@Yamyatos

2 жыл бұрын

I know right? I was thinking like "did he programm that just for this showcase?". Not because the actual logic behind it is impressive. But because the visualization is lol.

@IlSharmouta

2 жыл бұрын

@@Yamyatos looks like he did, yeah. They're locked to straight horizontal or vertical lines when he drags the mouse, so with only right angle corners, which then get nicely rounded. Impressive effort just to have his demonstrations nice and smooth looking.

@twojnarrator7576

2 жыл бұрын

Shift

@thepearlking4417

2 жыл бұрын

He was actually holding shift

I can’t believe how well put this is. So simple yet explains a lot of concepts clearly and in detail. Teachers do matter.

When Sebastian says he's 'not so good at giving' computers instructions, a collective gulp can be heard from the rest of us.

@thederpderp7758

3 жыл бұрын

Haha I can relate :D

@amgames5638

3 жыл бұрын

As he proceeds to show the complex boids and procedural marching squares he designed himself... XD

@TriDeapthBear

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he then shows a program I couldn't figure out how to make... lol

@youneskasdi

3 жыл бұрын

Gulp? i almost swallowed my entire self

@NStripleseven

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

This would be such an incredible tool for educational settings like classrooms.

@beyondcatastrophe_

3 жыл бұрын

I can recommend Logisim (or any of it's successors). It's a more polished tool that also has useful blocks like multiplexers, registers and more

@ipotrick6686

3 жыл бұрын

logisim

@Anohaxer

3 жыл бұрын

@@beyondcatastrophe_ > more polished more bloated, really. for purely education it's needlessly big. > useful blocks like multiplexers, registers and more if this had a save/load functionality it could be part of the course to build those yourself, which would be fun i think

@nayandusoruth2468

3 жыл бұрын

For any kind of logic circuit stuff, simulator.io is a decent online system if your curious

@UberMun

3 жыл бұрын

@@Anohaxer this guy posts on /g/ heh

Your digital logic Sim is ...more exciting than anything I could have imagined having as a kid in the 80s... and the things I could imagine Cost way more than I could have afforded. ... I applaud your efforts man. You do a service to all future people. Cheers.

I took a course on computer architecture where we learned about all this stuff, but your explanation of the sign bit and calling it -8 was so clever! The sign bi, two's compliment, and everything has always been such a weird concept, especially when trying to explain it to others.

Damn. Is this going to be another Ben Eater? If so, I'm in.

@jackdavenport5011

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, a fellow person of culture

@sinus4784

3 жыл бұрын

i love ben eater that guy is great

@lior_haddad

3 жыл бұрын

The title made me think this was Ben Eater before I saw the thumbnail, so maybe.

@sinus4784

3 жыл бұрын

@@lior_haddad same

@patrlim

3 жыл бұрын

Why does he eat bens

I found out how to use simple logic gates from games like scrap mechanic and minecraft. It's strange building a computer, inside a video game that's running on a computer.

@TheKikou18

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to Turing Completness, the criterion that tells you "Can this computer/mechanism/... simulate any computer/mechanism/... ?" For example, you could theoretically run minecraft on dominoes and make some redstone inside to make your exact computer !

@Xtilly-uq2xm

3 жыл бұрын

i learned from minecraft originally too, and learned to make basic computer components in scrap mechanic as well

@1Joren

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently Microsoft Powerpoint is also Turing complete

@jupi6851

3 жыл бұрын

yeah right! although minecraft is one of the few videogames that allow you to do this (others being baba is you and factorio) because it is turing complete. this is all so interesting :D

@amberpurrington3565

3 жыл бұрын

i edited this comment

Hey Sebastian. Here's some praise: Your channel is a great candidate to being my favorite on youtube. Your videos are very focused and well explained, very well produced without being overproduced in any way, the vibe is perfectly wholesome, you go deeper than surface level, but not 4 hour videos. And it seems you put a lot of work into each video off screen and the quality is just wonderful. I get very inspired to create and explore but do not feel any pressure to also be cool and like you, as I can get from watching videos by other cool people.

I studied this stuff decades ago, and have now stumbled onto this video looking for a good tutorial for my grandson. Am just six minutes into it, but holy cow, it's brilliant. Best explanations I've ever seen. Bravo, Mr Lague.

This is absolutely the best description I never ever seen in my entire life. As a dev for 10 year interested in electronic, I finally got the “aha” moment. Thank you.

@greatcesari

Жыл бұрын

These are my thoughts exactly. Going through everything slowly, and visually building on previous more basic steps (circuits) using that little program made everything click perfectly. This style of explanation should be implemented in universities. The only addition is that I'd briefly explain from the start what everything is leading up to for the sake of unexperienced viewers.

@m.h.m7509

Жыл бұрын

same

I like the way of thinking of the sign indicator as -8. never hear of this idea before

@benrex7775

3 жыл бұрын

- That is a quite common thing in programming. It's called signed datatypes. - Floating point numbers are also common. They are often bigger numbers and the computer needs more effort to calculate them, that's why they are avoided if possible, if you need an optimized code. - Quite a bit rarer is the fixed point numbers. There you have a fixed number of digits above the comma and a fixed number behind the comma.

@samuelwerley528

3 жыл бұрын

@@benrex7775 I think what he means is the -8 part. I learned about signed data types and the twos complement in school as well, but never saw the signed digit explained like that. Made it more intuitive. My professor taught us how to do the twos complement but it didn't click for me what it was actually doing until I saw this video

@benrex7775

3 жыл бұрын

@@samuelwerley528Makes sense.

@hodayfa000h

Ай бұрын

Well I already knew it from simply hacking with assembly I made a signed num an unsigned on and got shocked how after a certain value, numbers are supposedly negative even if not appearing so

Wow! This is without a doubt the best, most concise introduction to digital system in all of KZread. And despite of being short and extremely concise, you explained it perfectly. As with many others in the comments, this complements my university course perfectly! Will share it with my friends, thanks!

oh my God this is the #1 video that actually makes sense out of basically 1 million other videos that try to explain

This explains in less than 20m what our computer class needs weeks for.

@xyrex9911

3 жыл бұрын

yeah lmao the visuals were actually so helpful. Imagine if the next curriculum just showed this series instead xD

@gileee

3 жыл бұрын

True, but in addition they teach you the connection between logic and language, the formalization of logical statements (which basically teaches you formal math language on the side) and different forms which have additional properties (such as ease of simplification of expressions with special algorithms), the limits and issues in practice, additional theory that talks about the maximal expression potential you have when you limit the number of operations (or gates) and what's need for maximum expressive power (why is just a NAND gate enough to represent all logical statements?), extending all the way to ALUs, instructions (and the history of computation).. and enough info in between to fill up this youtube comment input box.

@plasticflower

3 жыл бұрын

You should be grateful that your class dedicates a couple of weeks to this and doesn't merely show you a 20 minute video and then says "OK, got it? Onto the next topic then!"

@douglasg14b

3 жыл бұрын

And it probably took several times longer to produce! Which is the key, short, dense, easy to digest information takes a LOT of time and effort to create. Your [professors are not paid enough, nor are they provided with enough time to produce coursework of this quality.

@danielb270

3 жыл бұрын

You understand this video well BECAUSE you had weeks of university classses.

Me at start: Oh thats simple 1 and 1 goes in ,then 1 goes out Me just 3 minutes later: w0t

@4TH4RV

3 жыл бұрын

same lol

Liked the video before watching, this guy is amazing, not only the topics are interesting, but the way he delivers the content is so good (approach, graphics, framing, etc).

Best explanation on how to build an adder so far...

This is a boiled down version of what took me $4000 and 6 months to learn when I was getting my university degree. It's an excellent example of how KZread is making college obsolete.

@omgcyanide4642

3 жыл бұрын

Great comment!

@lazyemperor5182

3 жыл бұрын

Obsolete ,shows that u r a programmer,,anyway I feel college is useless since everything is available for free on internet ,thanks to guys like Sebastian who make it free

@SkrtlIl

2 жыл бұрын

I can't really believe thats all you did in each course for a whole semester. We did this more thoroughly and formally than shown here in a single course, making up about a fifth of the coursework. I'm not in EE/CE tho and I know they have plenty more hours of digital electronics, but it's also far more advanced

@shishirgurung4427

2 жыл бұрын

You're only looking at it from a binary perspective, like a programmer. There's more facets to life and why people make certain choices. The risk vs reward and regulatory components are imbalanced on the interwebs compared to real life. Colleges pay a lot in time and money compared to KZread creators. Colleges can't just make money by passing an algorithm

@MrMustacrackish

2 жыл бұрын

So there are the MOOCs offered through some great schools and I think you can get an electrical engineering license in Wisconsin if you pass the test regardless if you have a 4 year degree...

I've taken 4 years of computer science classes and no one has once explained this as well as you have. Great video

@septa7559

Жыл бұрын

Yes, if an online course was as good as this all the way, I bet you could get a college level degree in a year.

@jamesedwards6173

Жыл бұрын

You learn this stuff more in Computer/Electrical Engineering than in Computer Science. Especially in Digital Design (and, later, Computer Architecture) courses. (And, no, Septa, not a chance. There's way, way, waaaaaay more than this kind of thing to learn in getting a university degree in a field that would include this rudimentary material. Though, yes, this is certainly a nicely explanatory video.)

Hi Sebastian, I recently stumbled upon your project and videos and I really like your simulation tool. I sure hope you will continue to work on it to make it even more complete :) Hope to see more from you in the future!

This is spectecular, it's fascinating! Not only your voice and temp is so relaxing and chill, but the way how you bind boolean algebra and computer electronics with arithmetics is just fascinating! I have noticed some correlations between binary addition and some specific boolean operations as well, but thinking that arithmetic itself is built on top of combining these foundational operations into higher-level abstractions is just outstanding and gives a deeper glimpse into the design of lower-level languages like C and explains why overflowing numbers sets them to zero.

@surplusvalue3271

10 ай бұрын

it is such a great feeling when things start making sense!

"Wait, Its all booleans?" "Always has been..." *Cocks gun*

@watchableraven3517

3 жыл бұрын

I like your profile picture

@oyoplayer

3 жыл бұрын

Wait, number is booleans?

@abdullahelwalid4494

3 жыл бұрын

@@oyoplayer 0&1 are booleans it's either zero or one that's why it's a boolean :) in other words Yes or No. This is called binary language which the computer understands.

@oyoplayer

3 жыл бұрын

@@abdullahelwalid4494 thanks but i already know that (because I'm dev) , i Say that for the joke

@abdullahelwalid4494

3 жыл бұрын

@@oyoplayer 😂😂😂 😂😂my bad

I learned this years ago just with tables. This tool is such a genius idea. You should really make it "polished" as you've said and give it out to schools and universities. Every it-student will love you for this.

@endodd_7742

3 жыл бұрын

There are already dozens of good logic simulators with way more functions and more standardized representations. Check out Logisim or Digital by hneemann for example. For more complex stuff hardware description language is used instead.

I've gone through NAND2Tetris and Ben Eater's videos, and your simulated approach is by far the most intuitive and simple to watch.

As always with Sebastian's videos, I'm awed just as much by the work he puts into visualizing the concepts he describes as I am by concepts themselves

This is embarrassing within 2 minutes you explained basic "and" and "not" gates 100% better than what my uni did for me, i had a course i struggled with greatly in which my tutor always mocked me for not understanding what he taught. But the difference is that this is better than my course and is free, and my course is more expensive and much worse at explaining. I'm considering sending this anonymously to my university course coordinator to show how embarrassing the teaching methods that we pay for are taught significantly more poorly than a free youtube video, this is making it very hard for me to consider staying in the course considering i am a third year and feel like ive learnt it all myself through the Internets free resources.

@CraftBasti

3 жыл бұрын

Do it. Not necessarily to embarrass anyone, but maybe they can learn and improve with it. Or show it instead of class. In any case a win for future struggling students

@knowledgedh7700

3 жыл бұрын

@@CraftBasti hopefully they can improve just very much in a shitty mood at the moment because am in an examination period, so that was just purely me venting cause my first initial emotion to this video was not a very kind one towards my uni

@CraftBasti

3 жыл бұрын

@@knowledgedh7700 I understand you, I went through the same not to long ago. I wish you the best

@knowledgedh7700

3 жыл бұрын

@@CraftBasti thankyou, means a lot

@stevenwoerpel1884

3 жыл бұрын

as a tutor myself, your tutor is SHIT for belittling you for not knowing the course content. That is literally exactly what tutors are not suppose to do, and the exact reason why the tutee is there in the first place.

How can even you get anytihng done with that cute cat trying to catch the things on the monitor ._.

3 жыл бұрын

I have an almost identical one, just a bit darker in the colors, and she sleeps on me and purrs when she is not chasing my cursor on the screen )

@vibaj16

3 жыл бұрын

my friend was trying to do something with photoshop, and his can ran across his keyboard. It messed a lot of things up.

@serenityenderson

3 жыл бұрын

Only a dog person would say that... :p

@chromosoze

3 жыл бұрын

@@vibaj16 you keep that as a pet? usually we eat from them

@benurm2390

3 жыл бұрын

@@chromosoze lol he was eating from it

Brilliant! It's fabulous how he takes us from a simple set of and and not gates and creates all the other basic gate types, and then creates an addition unit. Very cool.

My god that may be the cutest cat I've ever seen in my life

@jeetenderkakkar7570

3 жыл бұрын

100

@cardcode8345

2 жыл бұрын

Me Looking at every other cat.

@globalwarrior16

2 жыл бұрын

He wants to code

@petertherobot9326

2 жыл бұрын

*Meanwhile in the comment sections*

@pantashu1ch1

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr😫🤚🏻✨

How are you so good at programming and technology yet at the same time such a great educator, videographer and animator?! I love all of your content and want to thank you sincerely for creating it with such amazing depth, structure, aesthetics and attention to detail!

This 18 minute video taught me, and explained to me, more about bits and computing than my entire Computing course in college... Genuinely, from the very bottom of my heart- Thank you.

You can't trick us! This is a cat video disguised as education!

This is exactly how I taught my nephew in 7th class how to code. Once he understood the alu structure, it was all a piece of cake for him. It took me 4 years of grad school and 3 years working in the industry to understand all this in a way I could teach a 12 year old. We never had such informative video back then. ❣️

Mr. Lague, you are an excellent teacher and a tremendous asset to this planet. I subscribed a few days ago, you deserve to have many more. Thank you for this video.

my whole semester's digital circuits and logic design lectures summed up in 18 minutes! thank you for this incredible and amazing video!

What I love about these videos is that they talk about programming concepts in a easy to digest way without talking down to the audience. You very much feel like you're learning alongside Sebastian, even if he's over simplifying concepts for the sake of a video. This is easily one of the best programming related channels on KZread.

This channel is incredibly valuable. Part of me wants you to monetize half this video or the rest of the series behind a paywall but the other part of is sincerely grateful to you for having sought out this knowledge and organized it so well in your own mind that it influences and motivates someone like me to become intensely focused on the information and knowledge provided. Thank you!

This is such an awesome video. It requires a few watches to truly understand the logic but the logic is so sound and you show it so well that I plan to show in my Computer Science Principles class since I am getting questions on how exactly do computers work.

omg, calling the sign bit "-8x" makes so much sense! None of my professors taught it that way! I'd always kind of struggle because I had to remember the formula/steps to get the 2's complement, but thinking of it as -8x just takes that need away!!

@ShipleyConcrete

Жыл бұрын

I based my numerals off of two's complement

@deafanddumb6329

Жыл бұрын

here here

@sharafmakahleh4125

Жыл бұрын

If you want to really understand how it works, look at 9's and 10's complement in the 10-digit system. That blew my mind away Instead of subtracting two numbers like 75-31 = 44 1-We can subtract and add a 100 (10's complement, like one's complement in binary): 75-(-100+31) - 100 2-Then we prepare for 9's complement(easier to work with because it's like inverting each digit): 75 - (-99+31) +1 -100 (75 + 68)+1-100 3- We do the calculation, then minus 100 (that's why we delete the carry at the final step) (143+1) -100 144 -100 = 44

hey Sebastian! I just got into software engineering at my local uni !! I just wanted to say that you were a big part of that decision. Your exploration of computing has completely captured my interest and guided me on my own little programming explorations. Cheers! Jonah :)

@Lucius.Hercules

3 жыл бұрын

also this ALU design takes me back to trying to make a 4 bit adder in minecraft years ago. im super excited for the next episode :))

This is amazing! I previously took a course on computer logic, but this video and that software makes learning more intuitive by visualizing each step of constructing the building blocks of the computer

I catch myself getting back to your video on semi-monthly basis, its so calming and adicitivly developing

He explains all my semester's lessons in just 18 minutes in more comprehensive way. Thank you very much🇵🇭😆

Such a neat little program you got there! This would be so nice for schools. A program where you have nothing but an AND gate and an inverter at the start. While you learn you build your own more and more complex components and some little pocket calculator at the end? Would be cool to have 7-segment displays where you have to build the logic for as well!

@lucasfranco1758

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know the name of it?

@ohwowlovely5496

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucasfranco1758 I think he programmed it himself.

@LucasHussey

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucasfranco1758 Check the description!

@lucasfranco1758

2 жыл бұрын

@@LucasHussey Thanks!

@efulmer8675

2 жыл бұрын

I suggest checking out the game "Turing Complete" if you liked this simulation of his and wanted to learn more. It's exactly this but it steps you through everything from circuit logic all the way up to programming on your own (simulated) home-built computer.

Hello Sebastian! I really like your videos! I ended up on the very first one cominfrom the 8 segments display :D Such a good ; it's very lovely - Keep up the good work Cheers

Wow, I had no idea you could make all of that just basically out of the two 'and' and 'not' physical logic gates you showed at the beginning. What a fantastic video

I am a computer programmer with 7 years of professional experience. I felt like sitting in class back in the day. Amazing nostalgic experience. Keep building brother. Waiting for part two of this.

@NbaYoungBoyWithABeard

Жыл бұрын

Heyy can we talk?

Yep, just casually build a virtual computer in 5-10 episodes

Hey! Turns out I didn't watch your video before starting to work on my own little boolean circuit simulation. It has come quite far, allowing non-sequential circuits and even sharing of circuits with a link. I will be watching your project closely to see how you tackle the ui problems; your work is truly amazing ^^

Using your simulator program and following along with the video I would have to say I have learned a lot about logic gates. I always understood what the names meant and kinda how they worked with the truth tables, but breaking it down in this way and using just the AND and NOT gates to create the rest of them and then build an adder really drove home the logic, thank you!

I've been taught this stuff so many times, but this is the first time that I've actually learned it.

As someone who’s put a lot of time into computer architecture, I’m excited to see how you explain things :) Edit: Well done, I hope to see this continue.

My man you deserve all the praise and respect in the world. This was literally the best explanation for how computers work.

I happened to know I think everything in here, and yet... this was amazing. I loved watching it, and especially, I love the idea of sharing it with others I know who _don't_ already know this stuff. This seemed like an amazing explanation, and I hope it will be received at least half as well as I'm hoping. Thanks for this!!!

@DavidLindes

Жыл бұрын

P.S. Oh, could you also add a link to From NAND to Tetris to your description? I found it easily enough, but I had to go back through the video to find the spot where you mentioned it (4:22), so I could remember what it was called -- I remembered that you'd mentioned a video series I hadn't seen, and was going to just find it in the description, but when I looked, I found Ben Eater's videos (with which I was already familiar), but failed to find anything new to me. So, humble suggestion to add it!

I gotta say. Its incredible how condensed and smooth your explanation of the matter is. I needed about 4h to understand these fundamentals and ironically your video featured information completely new to me. Only roadblock for me was the speed at which everything was going. If I wouldn't know the things discussed beforehand I'd need multiple watches and attpempts at recreation to understand properly. But that is a personal problem. The video is hands down excellent. Keep it up :D

@The_Troll

Жыл бұрын

Just for fun try clicking the Settings gear at the bottom right and changing the Playback speed to .75 or even .50. It does give you more time to think.

@Kopczak1995

Жыл бұрын

Remember that our guy needed to 1. Understand concept himself 2. Mess around with real life circuits enough to be sure what he's doing 3. Needed to prepare a lot of material and codes before he showed us something This video is but a short summary of what Sebastian learned (tho in a damn cool way). Don't be ashamed that it take you time to learn. To create such videos, especially if someone say he just learned it (big thumbs up here!), there was a lot of hours sank to create "measly" 20 minutes of content. I would be darn impressed for someone to learn complex concepts of logical operators from a scratch without a prior knowledge about that or IT in general in 30 minutes.

This 18 minute video sums up combinational logic in a *significantly* better way than my university's Intro to Digital Design course. Well done!

damn. This video is exactly what i learned in the first two weeks of my computer organization course i just finished

man this is so precise and all from first principles sooo goodddd

I've never seen someone working out two's complement directly

After years of trying to learn this stuff I finally understand. your teaching approach is incredible. Please continue the series!!

I am a complete noob with this stuff however I downloaded your program and having some fun with it even though I have little to no Idea what I am doing right now. Thank you Sebastian!

In 18 minutes, this video shows you how electronic components translate to logic gates, and how logic gates translate to binary numbers, and how binary numbers translate to decimal numbers. Since the birth of electronics in the early 1900s, this is how every microchip, electronic computer, and electronic calculator has worked, including the one you're using to watch this video. All we did was make the components, and thus the circuits, smaller and smaller and smaller. I've used a multimeter and oscilloscope, and drawn logic networks, and done computer programming, and I always understood the link between binary and decimal, but until now, no one actually ever told me what the link is between the electronic components and the numbers. Astounding!

This kinda makes me appreciate my calculator and all the complexity explained in these "How computer works" vids shows that we've taken them for granted. Thanks for the vid

It actually really bothers me that this level of detail is not taught at university in Computer Science courses. It just stops at Assembly language, but that doesn’t give you this level of context.

@deijmos9848

3 жыл бұрын

appears to depend on the university, it was taught in mine (germany)

@gamurarandrei2657

3 жыл бұрын

@@deijmos9848 well...., it's Germany, you are supposed to learn that

@whitepickle1

3 жыл бұрын

was taught at mine too in New Zealand, we even went as far as creating an entire CPU in verilog

@gamurarandrei2657

3 жыл бұрын

@@whitepickle1 what specification/speciality?

@volodyadykun6490

3 жыл бұрын

I'm on CS in Ukraine and it was taught and Assembly was not. But I can see how it or something else might be avoided talking about programming, it's just very wide field, connected with some more stuff, I for example want to learn more than I had about hardware, practical knowledge of PC but I understand it's not necessary for all high-level programmers

Excellent! Introduction to digital logic, I will be watching all your videos.- Thanks for all the work you did into making these videos.- m

I took an entire college class on this topic. You made me understand it better in 18 minutes. Well done!

Damn, am i the only one who feels like this video ended on a cliff hanger ? I like this project, thumbs up man.

This is one of the best node editors I've ever seen! Love how you can organize and branch the connections so easily.

This is as good as an educational video can be. Truly. You have a gift, sir. Amazing content and I am now I LOYAL subscriber.

This video is gold! Thank you so much for the explanation.

Your content is literally exactly what I’m interested in right now - like I just spent the last three hours watching Ben eater and then this is a perfect summary of what I learnt

Haven't actually watched anything yet but hoping this becomes a series!

Beautiful video series - thank you.

Excellent tutorial! Very clean and clear explanation with easy to understand languange and nice pace.

Sebastian's going down the Zachlike rabbit hole...

This has summed up everything from two weeks' worth of Computing BTEC College lessons into 18 minutes, in the most intuitive way I've ever seen! Amazing and interesting content, I love it!

Best explanation ever of all times, cleared my doubts which I am having since years, thank you so much :)

This is one of the best explanations I have ever seen! Thank you so much for making this!

I'm legit nerding out right now cause I understand everything you're saying

@iXenox

3 жыл бұрын

me too

@Alizavr

3 жыл бұрын

honestly the best feeling

@evanherriges4042

3 жыл бұрын

same

NOOOOO I've found interesting series when it only started!!! now i'll have to wait for other episodes :(

@Mastermeida

3 жыл бұрын

I found it 4 months later. Which is mildly better.

@beepbeepimasheep237beepbee3

2 жыл бұрын

Welp, looks like he should continue this series.

i just watched this before my logic design exam, absolutely magnificent how much you explained in one video , thanks alot

Wow. How I couldn't find this incredible channel before!!! ¡Gracias por compartir!

Wow this is BY FAR the most concise explanation of twos complement I’ve ever seen. In college I think this took over an hour. PLEAAASE expand this series further and show the implementation and explanation of other parts of the computer like sequential logic, to counters to registers to memory etc and continue on the combinational side like you did with adders to the rest of the ALU to instruction decoding, bus control, etc

MY GOD I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. Teaching, showing, explaining, everything! Please continue, this is A+ material so far!

I JUST WANT TO SAY YOU ARE FREAKING AMAZING! Like seriously as soon as i can afford to i am donating money to your project asap. THIS IS SINGLE-HANDEDLY THE MOST AMAZING SOFTWARE I HAVE SEEN IN FOR EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please continue your amazing works. You have my absolute support. I'm also your new subscriber!

i keep on watching videos for introduction for coding but i end up on vids like this that TRULY peak my interest. i’m not sure what that tells me, but i’m in love with this.

These explanations are amazing. Which teachers had to be as compelling as you! Even your 2-s complement explanation was so clean and really gave a deep understanding of the relationship of the numbers in binary

Having programmed my own CPU simulation from scratch before, I still watched this and enjoyed every minute of it 👍

@lazyemperor5182

3 жыл бұрын

What???u wrote ur own processor great work man,make a vid about it and I shall be excited to watch it

They should just show this in class. Your explanations are not only clear and consice but you walk through each step which really helps understandings take hold. Thank you.