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Welcome to my site o/
I made this with the purpose of primarily being a tech blog,
where I can write about projects I'm working on and certs I'm working towards.
I'm still figuring out HTML/CSS so forgive the site for looking a little ugly. :d
I plan to work on it as I go.
Comptia A+
CCNA (In Progress)
NAND2Tetris Part I
NAND2Tetris Part II (In Progress)
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles by Noam Nisan & Shimon Schocken
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python by Al Sweigert
This will serve as my first weblog. As you'll see above, I'm currently studying & working on a number of things. I work in the IT field, which I broached with a CompTIA A+ cert. On the career advancement front (outside of my normal work duties and projects) I'm working towards attaining a CCNA. I'm currently about halfway through Jeremy IT Lab's Free CCNA Course.
I've also recently found a lot of fun in reinventing the wheel with NAND2Tetris, a project where you start with a simple NAND logic gate and build your way up to a modern computer capable of running Tetris. So far I've completed the hardware platform of my HACK computer, which constitutes the first half of the course, and dabbled in some HACK assembly programming. I'm stil working on the final project which is to code a program that will convert files of HACK assembly code into binary that can be loaded as instructions to the ALU. I chose Python to write the program in, so I've been using Al Sweigerts Automate the Boring Stuff with Python as a refresher in Python programming. Also, unsatisfied with some of gaps left from NAND2Tetris, I've picked up Code by Charles Petzold. Instead of starting off with logic gates as the lowest level of abstraction and not bothering with their implementation, Petzold starts off with the nature of codes and gets more into the developmental history of circuits, relays, transistors and the like. It also has a really good explanation of 2's complement which NAND2Tetris left me confused on.
From here, my next logs will be to mark my progress with my CCNA studies & the 2nd half of my NAND2Tetris project. Later I'd also like to give my full review of Code once I finish reading.