I have the same memories of a UNF required computer lab course in 2002 or so. We were required to learn about flip-flops, various other hardware gates, and using truth tables and clocks to form hardware logic.
By the end of the course we had to make a 4-bit breadboard CPU that could handle a couple of operations; a push button acted as the "clock". It was all very simplistic but at the same time I learned an incredible amount about how computer hardware works.
By the end of the course we had to make a 4-bit breadboard CPU that could handle a couple of operations; a push button acted as the "clock". It was all very simplistic but at the same time I learned an incredible amount about how computer hardware works.