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Overall Score : 98 / 100

Course Description

What you'll achieve:In this project-centered course* you will build a modern computer system, from the ground up. We'll divide this fascinating journey into six hands-on projects that will take you from constructing elementary logic gates all the way through creating a fully functioning general purpose computer. In the process, you will learn - in the most direct and constructive way - how computers work, and how they are designed.What you'll need:This is a self-contained course: all the knowledge necessary to succeed in the course and build the computer system will be given as part of the learning experience. Therefore, we assume no previous computer science or engineering knowledge, and all learners are welcome aboard. You will need no physical materials, since you will build the computer on your own PC, using a software-based hardware simulator, just like real computers are designed by computer engineers in the field. The hardware simulator, as well as other software tools, will be supplied freely after you enroll in the course.Course format:The course consists of six modules, each comprising a series of video lectures, and a project. You will need about 2-3 hours to watch each module's lectures, and about 5-10 hours to complete each one of the six projects. The course can be completed in six weeks, but you are welcome to take it at your own pace. You can watch a TED talk about this course by Googling "nand2tetris TED talk".*About Project-Centered Courses: Project-centered courses are designed to help you complete a personally meaningful real-world project, with your instructor and a community of learners with similar goals providing guidance and suggestions along the way. By actively applying new concepts as you learn, you'll master the course content more efficiently; you'll also get a head start on using the skills you gain to make positive changes in your life and career. When you complete the course, you'll have a finished project that you'll be proud to use and share.

Time: 19h

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Shimon Schocken

4.9 Rating
475 Reviews

Shimon is professor of computer science at IDC Herzliya, founding dean of IDC's Efi Arazi school of computer science, and visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard University and Stanford university. In addition to computer science education, Shimon is committed to empowering the learning and teaching of early age mathematics, and is co-founder of www.matific.com.

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By Md. H H S B on 23-Apr-19

Its just awesome...

By Eugene O on 6-Aug-19

Amazing course!

By Lakshyaraj S R on 6-Aug-19

best course if someone has to look what going under the hood.

By Ricardo M B N on 6-Aug-19

Exceptional course, I wish I had that course back when I was in university.

By Jonathan on 5-Aug-19

This course allowed me to understand the working of computers on the fundamental level!!

By Ben S on 3-Aug-19

While I have multiple degrees in computer science, I have never felt I have a solid appreciation of how a computer works from the electrons up. This course is by far the best I have taken, and incredibly rewarding to work through. I feel I now have a first principles level grasp of how a computer works from the logic gates all the way through to the operating system. I can't recommend this course enough.

By Nils H on 2-Aug-19

If your want to understand how computers work THIS is the course you should take. I've started with programming about two years ago. Very often I have asked myself "How does this *magic* all work?"So I've looked at different programming languages (even read a bit about assembly) but nothing was able to enlighten me ass much as the nand2tetris course.I'd like to thank the two creators for offering this amazing trip from nand-gates to actually having a usable assembly language that the user even writes and assembler for. Just Wow!Side-note: Since the course consists of a lot of video material, I'd like to point out, that I watched the videos on 1.5x. By doing so you'll get through the information bits much quicker and for me it still wasn't an issue to follow, because there is always a lot of side material where you can look up stuff, once you get to the exercises.

By Shi Z on 28-Jul-19

Best MOOC ever! Every engineer working in computer science or EE disciplines would be able to find some 'missing puzzles' of his skill set from this course.

By Daniel S on 25-Jul-19

Excellent Course ! one of the best here in Coursera. you can learn HDL, Assembly and CPU architecture in 6 weeks

By Sindhoor T on 23-Jul-19

This is one of the best courses I've ever taken. Simplistic, easy to follow, takes you from Beginner to Advanced at a steady pace. Learned a ton! Thanks a lot for making such a beautiful course

By Anton A on 20-Jul-19

Hugely fun and informative :D

By Ramesh N on 21-Jul-19

Something that I always wanted to do , this course allowed me to do something that I would have never been able to do otherwise . Cannot recommend it enough to the Computer science student as well as the IT professional