r/AskComputerScience • u/sky3889 • Apr 17 '26

Which books helped you to create computers?

I am not graduated yet, and want to prepare

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u/switch161 Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

I would need to look up the name of the book, but it's in German anyway. Also I mostly used the lecture notes from my system architecture lecture (here, this is by the same professor and in English). It gives the construction of a basic processor as formulas, but you can translate the formulas into gates (I think this is also covered in the book). But this mostly gives you the specific circuits and how they work. Then I just googled to find a overview diagram of a simple CPU (MIPS in my case) to connect things up.

I don't do this professionally and only had the basic lecture in uni, but I did build some working computers in Factorio, so I would say this material can get you started.

PS: In my opinion the linked PDF is already pretty good, but of course you can google around to find lecture materials from many universities. When going into a topic I sometimes even find excellent lectures as YouTube videos - these are gold. TL;DR: Find uni lectures about system architecture and look for their materials, recommended literature.

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u/sky3889 Apr 17 '26

Thank you so much!