How the Tube algorithm made a connection to this video is a total mystery, but it provide me with a wonderful gift. I love this video. I am 76 and have been programming since 1983. I love your thinking and approach to instructing.
Started also 1983 on a C64 at the age of 14, later Amiga. It was basically curiosity-driven learning-by-doing at first, because there was no course/teacher, no internet, just homecomputeer magazines that inspired. To me it was all about curiousity and fun. I started with BASIC-Spagetti Code ... But since my other hobby was electronics, I got interested in the hardware, so learnt some assemby language, got myself C64/Amiga-Internals-Books, a developer series of books for the Amiga ... then studied some operating system internals, learnt how to program chip registers directly ... also often just for fun, trying something out to see, whether I understood it right and whether it worked the way I wanted ... Also got into some reverse-engineering , also on the PC later ... I studied computer science later, but my start was doing things for fun as a hobby after school in some playful way :)
@@sino-wt7pu i was a heavy equipment mechanic and 36 years old. I saw a changeable letter sign, introduction to computers night class. I wrote the number in the dust on the dash of my truck. I wanted to take the course, but there were too many people and i had no chance to really do anything on my computer. I spent almost every cent I had to buy a computer so that i could learn on my own. That changeable letter sign changed my life. I retired from a career in computer automation.
For context, I am almost a master graduate in theoretical physics but I feel I exactly know what you are talking about in the intro. Your enthusiasm is what I struggle to find everyday and finding people like you is one of the best feelings
This sounds like exactly what I need. UA-cam is saturated with content on the surface level of programming. It's hard to find a roadmap past the basics. I'm looking forward to joining the course!
Hacking, how I understand it after 30 years of coding, is the art of learning and understanding a system and make it do, what you want for your own or everyone’s benefit. I will follow you along, Kay. Thanks for doing this (already watched your C and ASM episodes). Your „reintroducing programming“ idea is amazing. We have so many people in our field who are using high level languages, writing all sorts of software without ever actually thinking about the interior workings. And that is, in my mind, quite sad as this was, what fascinated me the first time, I had a computer in front of me. Creating logic and something usable out of thin air basically, is the best thing you can have, the best job you can have, in my mind.
Dear kay: Within the first 5 minutes, I was hooked! I've never seen anyone on UA-cam so passionate and excited about coding. I discovered so many new things, and I'm definitely going to keep watching your content. Already subscribed-thank you so much for sharing this amazing content!
"Everything in a computer exists on some level in this structure... if you can take this idea and really believe it and follow through on what it means, all of computing opens up to you." you absolutely cooked with this, I don't know why but made me kind of emotional
A lot of other people said it already but this video is just so refreshing to see. I am a software engineer without higher education. Coming from an apprentice ship I knew the basics and could navigate the corporate world quite well. But something was missing. I recently joined an electrical engineering program because I felt that I wanted to go deeper not just the software but also the hardware. I feel like I wouldn’t be able to manage such a program if I didn’t have the desire to move past the surface. Not sure where my path takes me but I am really excited. I think your motivation is very infectious and I appreciate this video a lot because it came “at the right time”.
This series is perfect timing for me. I'm a "bootcamper" and have been working professionally for 6 years. I've become dissatisfied with surface-level knowledge and have been trying to understand the concepts and history of the field more deeply. I am so excited to follow along with this series!
I hope this blows up, I can relate so much to what you are saying. I’m working as a Software Developer, but I feel like I work on a higher layer and nobody wants me to dig deeper. I want to know what’s happening under the hood and work on a lower level. I don’t have a CS degree and was looking for a path, but it is kinda hard, because you can get overwhelmed quickly, but I think this is going to be exactly what I needed! I’m in.
Oh this brings back memories of college. I have not used a cli debugger in soo long. THIS, in my opinion, is where people either fall in love with programming or move on to something else. At least it was for me even though I barely passed my assembly language class. There is just something beautiful about all of it works. Thanks for sharing this.
Glad this was recommended to me! Your enthusiasm for the field does remind me of why I first learned to code, and I'm excited to see what comes of this course. I'm a mid-level programmer myself, confident in my skills but ready to learn lots more so I'm glad to see education targeting this group and not just at the total beginner level. On the note of living in an age of wonders: It's not cringe! You're right and you should say it! And the world is full of problems that exist to be solved (even if not all of them require the use of a computer). To tell the truth I hope that some of being a good hacker is knowing other skills as well. Looking forward to the course!
What a way to give an introduction to programming! I’m new to this and don’t have much programming knowledge since I don’t have a background in computer science. Right now, I’m studying for a degree in Business Administration. This year, I’ve been replacing HDDs with SSDs and installing Windows for my classmates, which are things I’ve learned on my own. However, I would like to learn programming to understand how programs work. Still, I feel lost and don’t know where to start. NEW SUBSCRIBER, I LOVE YOUR WAY OF EXPLAINING :)
on not getting a cs degree: could not be happier that i never went to school for computer science! very few things get me more excited than the joys of programming/computers that your course is about. when I talk to friends who've gone through the university-industry computer complex, they're happy that programming is something i've continued to love for years, but what once gave them the same joy that i get just exhausts them. it makes me so sad! i hope your work helps
i consider myself very lucky to have been bad enough at college to drop out of three different universities. i never stopped learning, but i managed to dodge a truckload of debt :
19:42 an instruction is a symbol representing an operation.... Instructions both are memory and operate on memory... instructions are what make programming programming and not electrical engineering... Very well worded! Love listening to this vid! well done!
Okay is a commitment now I am here at the beginning and will be here at the end discussing with the top minds in the field and contributing on that level
Wow awesome explanation! I’ve been programming for 20+ years and have never dived deep like this and am looking forward to learning from you! Subscribed! ❤️
Been writing code since I was around 12, freelancing since I was in my teens and working corporate as a software engineer for almost 10 years now (I’m just about to be 30) and you talk about technology how I have always felt :3. I’m so glad I came across your videos! You’re awesome 🥰💖
This is exactly the vibe which we need in our world. The romanticism is what we truly need to augment with the dry mechanistic attitude that we are bombarded with. The way you started this video exactly vibed. I can't exactly put into words. I am looking forward to this. The last time I felt this was when I was working through SICP book.
I discovered your channel in my recommendations, I'm glad I found this channel. Thank you so much for creating the educational content. Edit: even though I did and understand programming of microprocessors and microcontrollers along with C/C++ for a quite long time. This would be amazing to watch and see the new perspective which I might have missed regarding the in depth learning and visualization of every part of this project.
this whole thing is wonderful. i remember i use to stare at circuit boards and just look at all the components in awe. as i got older i learned a lot about pc's just from playing video games and needing to troubleshoot problems when my games wouldnt work and surprisingly you can learn a LOT by just trying to get your video games to work. i eventually started to really want to know how to program. i've learned a lot of C but use Cpp more then any other. The prob is i have this weee little issue that happens a lot.. whenever i go to learn something in some field, i start learning the basics and right as i get past the basics and see what the was built up from I start getting this overwhelming feeling that i cannot learn that without learning all the things that make it up. kinda like i feel like i have to learn the architecture before it. It is a very irritating thing because i feel like i'm constantly going backwards. SO, i'm excited to see what this course is going to teach... like VERY excited
Thanks so much @burntt999! I do sometimes feel like those early video games were just a trick to force us to learn how computers worked... I totally relate to what you said about needing to learn the things that make up the thing you're trying to learn - the other side of it is that once you do learn those things you've learned a whole lot more!
I don't know why It's never clicked for me like this but when you started talking about instructions it made me go "wow it really is a Turing machine!"
i love this. i wish more tech people thought this way - how do we actually teach and uplift everyone to be able to understand and contribute at the highest level? also, to have this mindset when learning? i am a product designer and have dipped my toes into coding many times and i'm coming to the realization that i need to be really comfortable with it to bring my ideas into life. but the problem you said about the level of work being low or stagnant also occurs in my field. i suspect across many fields in tech. o will definitely be following along this endless course!
As a full-time embedded SW engineer writing C everyday, I only recently did a little deeper dive (still shallow) into ARM assembly for modifying a kernel and I felt exactly this excitement you are so brilliantly portraying here. Love the video and the spirit. Keep up the good work. I will go about and recommend this to everyone I know who could be interested in CS. Great move btw to go straight to C and then to ASM! Once one understands this path, everything else is easy. Just more abstractions of the same concept... Side note: if your demo program had started with "int name = 1;" it would have put out 0x0DE5 at some stage. Would've been a nice easter egg ;)
Cool stuff - thx for sharing! I used to write games for the Commodore Amiga, and Sega Genesis - all in 68000 assembly language...and was always intimately aware of the memory, data / opcodes you describe here, particularly when optimizing and or debugging. Nice to see that some are still learning the fundamentals, and in this case sharing it out too... Watching from North Vancouver, Canada! Regards, Jules.
I've come across you via algo as I am self teaching myself programming. I am not a programmer yet so I don't think this is for me but more power to you for helping others learn and expand, It's a wonderful thing your doing.
Thank you for your kind words! Mind if I ask what you're learning at the moment? I have in my mind at some point to build something useful to those earlier on so I'm curious to know!
@@neoeno4242 I've been playing around with Tiny bits of Python but I really want to start properly with C, I feel like I will learn more without abstractions in the way. I have ADHD/Dyslexia and Dyspraxia so as you can imagine Kay learning for me is an immense effort. So I may stick with Python I may not. Any advice welcome!
That'll definitely add some obstacles. I have taught a fair few people with ADHD, quite significant dyslexia who went on to succeed in the field. I think often they approached topics in a few different ways in order to find a route that made sense - perhaps different for every topic. Apart from that, probably my main advice would be to find topics and projects that really engage and excite you. The more interesting they are, the more you will want to do them and the easier it will be to get through the tougher parts. So optimise for "as much coding as possible" and only then for the particular topics you think you 'should' be learning. Those will come with time, and computing is such a tightly connected field that as long as you're learning in some area then it'll help with everything. It may or may not work for you, but a couple years ago I made a short intro to Python course for my previous employer. Linking it here in case it's useful - github.com/makersacademy/intro-to-python/blob/main/000_START_HERE.md Good luck!
Wow. Amazing, amazing job. Technical, relatable, informative... you are doing a stellar job with translating low level technical mumbojumbo to relatable, colloquial phrases. Keep it up!!! ❤️🙏🤟
Woah, fantastic work! subscribed. I also agree with you that the lower level can give you some good ideas on the road ahead and throughout my career i always felt that some things that took more time for me to solve was the ones that involved more low level knowledge. Keep it up.
This is GOLD. A breath of fresh air from all the noise in the space. I'm currently in the situation you described. working with high level tools and not being able to go beyond them because of professional work and sometimes just being overwhelmed when trying to dig a little deeper. I'll be sticking around till the end. I've subscribed. Sending greetings from Ghana. Do you have a discord for discussions?
I hope to see more of these! It’s great to have someone walk me through Theory of Computation simply because it’s a wonder to behold, while recognizing that much of what current systems rely on was made in ways (and for reasons) we may fundamentally disagree with. Your videos will certainly help with my quest to interpret interpretability. Thank you for sharing what you’ve learned!
I was programming in assembly in the early eighties, then after switching to C programming, I was looking at the assembly instructions generated by the compiler to begin with. By the 90s when I was using C++, I didn't look at the low level details on the computer, but only in the external electronics that I was building. Many languages and years later, I started playing with python. While thinking of interesting projects, one idea was to write an emulator for one of the 8 bit CPUs that I programmed in assembly back in the 80s.
I want to try this!! I have been looking for something just like this so thank you. The approach towards seeing software and computers as HUMAN ARTIFACTS and of CULTURE. The Garrity clip is everything too lol. So inspiring. Also your haircut is so cute 🥰
I am feeling you and think I know what kind of curiosity you mean. Lost it over the course of time and employment hoping it will come back once i don't have to work any more.
I relate to every word you say, you are a cool person, I also didnt do a degree in computing and choose mechanical engineering for the same reason. although its a bit hard to find time to do what you love when you have so much responsibilities
Your introduction, especially the first 11 minutes, is really impressive. Sorry for judging you, but you seem like a person with a rich emotional sensitivity (not in a way of being overly sensitive). It may be a bit unorganized, but it really struck a chord with me. I hope you maintain this mood.
That guy mentioned at 3:04 is Eric S. Raymond, the author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and "The Art of Unix Programming" books. He is one of the most influential guys within the Open Source field.
I didn't get a degree either! Neither did I go to a bootcamp. I was, I guess lucky, to have a few years of intense boredom and depression at a job I hated, but where I could easily squirrel away at something. I don't think people need to go through what I went through, but I do think that those years where I wasn't doing it for money, there was no pressure except curiosity, made me the engineer that I am. I feel like we have some similarities!
Got this video recommend to me while making coffee in the morning! I agree i started programming in 2020 because i was very bored with my life and was intereged by the C language and the wonders behind it! Nowadays the magic of the programming is lost for me due to the garbage things we have to do to make ends meet...
Mike Rowe has the best advice on work. "Do something you do well." Basically ignore all that "do what makes your heart sing" and "passion" and all that revisionist post-modern rot, The modern world already has plenty of people doing something they love poorly. If you can do something well enough, your craft merges with art as in artisan (Not art like the latest opening from the ceramics department grad students expressing politics through angry splats of clay). I'm ready for the course. I'm a Knuth, Hore, Dykstra, Van der Linden guy and found errors in derivations in Numerical Recipes, etc. But when I see good modern code being written by a really competent person, it is quite different (and I think much better) from what I do. Free tip: Never use the word "what" unless you are asking a question. "What I am seeing here is..." --> Here I am seeing... Pedagogically using a question word sets up a gognitive disonance in the listener who goes on the alert for the question they are being asked to answer. When there is no question they have to mentally catch up with information. Plus it is wasted words. Bonus: Never say "and I will get to that later" or any of its kin. It is never needed.
Thanks Charles - interesting tips, your logic around 'what' makes sense. I'm curious if you might share more about why you wouldn't use "and I will get to that later"? For me, it's a conscious decision in order to allow the mind of the learner to comfortably disregard topics that might not yet be completely resolved in their minds, enabling them to focus limited working memory on what I am about to cover. The ideal of course is that you can sequence everything so that's unnecessary, but not always practical. Curious on your take.
@@neoeno4242 I feel the same way about "later" if you can't avoid it. My reason for avoiding is those whose imagination will race off in that direction and not hear a thing after that. Most of the time I hear this on YT, it isn't needed. I think it is often driven by wanting to keep people watching. Other times the speaking thinks it is helpful. I don't like to use "forward references", particularly on complicated or difficult material, like deriving an equation or giving directions. Even "then set this aside till later" is much more distracting than "then set this aside to dry". I saw today that current students have often never been required to read an entire book. Combine that kind of curriculum with Tiktok and Instagram and scrolling attention spans and I think we need to really work on keeping information linear and minimize word count. On the other hand, catering to deficiencies instead of correcting them is a road to ruin. But the "experts" and admins and Ed schools have forced "group cooperative activities" and no lecturing and no Socratic methods on us. Basically refusing to use the forms that have produced everything we have today in favor of a theory about something "better". (Arthur C. Clarke once said "For Every Expert there is an Equal and Opposite Expert")
Not sure why the algorithm pointed you in my direction. Anyway the videos are interesting with a curious take on the topics. I'm also a technical trainer but in the mobile telecomms field as well as software engineering. I did that job for over 12 years and have been a software engineer for nearly 40 years. I'm trans and getting rather old and not far from retirement. But i'm also humble enough to know there are always new ways to look at things and new things to learn. I didnt do a CS degree either. I did electrical and electronic engineering in the days before modern personal computers were a big thing although i did have Sinclair Spectrum and learned Z80 assembly language. The BBC Micro had not long come out when i was in my final year at university and i got to do a final year project with one. So we were not taught much about programming. So all my knowledge is mostly self taught. Keep up the good work Kay!
Thank you for sparking the flame of my passion once again. I had become so jaded that I forgot that thrill I felt when I was a child. 8:37 I laughed, because you're right! They are incredible! Taking a moment to feel the awe once again was vivifying! I'm grateful I came across this today
How the Tube algorithm made a connection to this video is a total mystery, but it provide me with a wonderful gift. I love this video. I am 76 and have been programming since 1983. I love your thinking and approach to instructing.
I'm reminded of Mrs. Doubtfire
Started in 1990 with basic/pascal/C, I'm 54, I have been with C/C++ for 30+ years
@@colinmaharaj50 my first language was Basic, monitors were black and white, 640x480.
Started also 1983 on a C64 at the age of 14, later Amiga. It was basically curiosity-driven learning-by-doing at first, because there was no course/teacher, no internet, just homecomputeer magazines that inspired. To me it was all about curiousity and fun. I started with BASIC-Spagetti Code ... But since my other hobby was electronics, I got interested in the hardware, so learnt some assemby language, got myself C64/Amiga-Internals-Books, a developer series of books for the Amiga ... then studied some operating system internals, learnt how to program chip registers directly ... also often just for fun, trying something out to see, whether I understood it right and whether it worked the way I wanted ... Also got into some reverse-engineering , also on the PC later ... I studied computer science later, but my start was doing things for fun as a hobby after school in some playful way :)
@@sino-wt7pu i was a heavy equipment mechanic and 36 years old. I saw a changeable letter sign, introduction to computers night class. I wrote the number in the dust on the dash of my truck. I wanted to take the course, but there were too many people and i had no chance to really do anything on my computer. I spent almost every cent I had to buy a computer so that i could learn on my own. That changeable letter sign changed my life. I retired from a career in computer automation.
For context, I am almost a master graduate in theoretical physics but I feel I exactly know what you are talking about in the intro. Your enthusiasm is what I struggle to find everyday and finding people like you is one of the best feelings
here is someone who deeply loves cs. not for money but for the love of it. This is what is required and deeply lacking in many software professionals.
The good ol' debate: can someone who isn't passionate about CS be a good engineer? There are good arguments on both sides.
Your enthusiasm and curiosity are as infectious as your smile :)
"Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough" - Feynman
This sounds like exactly what I need. UA-cam is saturated with content on the surface level of programming. It's hard to find a roadmap past the basics. I'm looking forward to joining the course!
OH MY WORLD! what a breath of fresh air is this content!
old school, yt vlogging. we should embrace this culture again!
Hacking, how I understand it after 30 years of coding, is the art of learning and understanding a system and make it do, what you want for your own or everyone’s benefit. I will follow you along, Kay. Thanks for doing this (already watched your C and ASM episodes). Your „reintroducing programming“ idea is amazing. We have so many people in our field who are using high level languages, writing all sorts of software without ever actually thinking about the interior workings. And that is, in my mind, quite sad as this was, what fascinated me the first time, I had a computer in front of me. Creating logic and something usable out of thin air basically, is the best thing you can have, the best job you can have, in my mind.
Signed up because you talk about computers the way I feel about computers, and I want to learn from someone like that :)
Dear kay: Within the first 5 minutes, I was hooked! I've never seen anyone on UA-cam so passionate and excited about coding. I discovered so many new things, and I'm definitely going to keep watching your content. Already subscribed-thank you so much for sharing this amazing content!
"Everything in a computer exists on some level in this structure... if you can take this idea and really believe it and follow through on what it means, all of computing opens up to you."
you absolutely cooked with this, I don't know why but made me kind of emotional
A lot of other people said it already but this video is just so refreshing to see. I am a software engineer without higher education. Coming from an apprentice ship I knew the basics and could navigate the corporate world quite well. But something was missing. I recently joined an electrical engineering program because I felt that I wanted to go deeper not just the software but also the hardware. I feel like I wouldn’t be able to manage such a program if I didn’t have the desire to move past the surface. Not sure where my path takes me but I am really excited. I think your motivation is very infectious and I appreciate this video a lot because it came “at the right time”.
"An instruction is a symbol representing an operation." - Kay
Well said!
and an operation is
@@electrocat9 a instruction representing an symbol
This series is perfect timing for me. I'm a "bootcamper" and have been working professionally for 6 years. I've become dissatisfied with surface-level knowledge and have been trying to understand the concepts and history of the field more deeply. I am so excited to follow along with this series!
My scenario is exactly like yours my brother. Let's go! Now's the time.
this channel is such a cosy vibe.
the algorithm brought this out of nowhere to me and it's amazing. I got hooked by the video
THE ALGO COOKED TODAY, WTF.
This is amazing!
I hope this blows up, I can relate so much to what you are saying. I’m working as a Software Developer, but I feel like I work on a higher layer and nobody wants me to dig deeper. I want to know what’s happening under the hood and work on a lower level. I don’t have a CS degree and was looking for a path, but it is kinda hard, because you can get overwhelmed quickly, but I think this is going to be exactly what I needed! I’m in.
WTFF, the algorithm actually did it an interesting video with limited inate reach that fits my niche.
this
i am 45, always loved to idea of programming but was scared to learn. thank you for this
i love your voice, that aside i will be joining, this is exactly what im looking for
Oh this brings back memories of college. I have not used a cli debugger in soo long. THIS, in my opinion, is where people either fall in love with programming or move on to something else. At least it was for me even though I barely passed my assembly language class. There is just something beautiful about all of it works.
Thanks for sharing this.
Glad this was recommended to me! Your enthusiasm for the field does remind me of why I first learned to code, and I'm excited to see what comes of this course. I'm a mid-level programmer myself, confident in my skills but ready to learn lots more so I'm glad to see education targeting this group and not just at the total beginner level.
On the note of living in an age of wonders: It's not cringe! You're right and you should say it! And the world is full of problems that exist to be solved (even if not all of them require the use of a computer). To tell the truth I hope that some of being a good hacker is knowing other skills as well. Looking forward to the course!
What a way to give an introduction to programming! I’m new to this and don’t have much programming knowledge since I don’t have a background in computer science. Right now, I’m studying for a degree in Business Administration. This year, I’ve been replacing HDDs with SSDs and installing Windows for my classmates, which are things I’ve learned on my own. However, I would like to learn programming to understand how programs work. Still, I feel lost and don’t know where to start. NEW SUBSCRIBER, I LOVE YOUR WAY OF EXPLAINING :)
on not getting a cs degree: could not be happier that i never went to school for computer science! very few things get me more excited than the joys of programming/computers that your course is about. when I talk to friends who've gone through the university-industry computer complex, they're happy that programming is something i've continued to love for years, but what once gave them the same joy that i get just exhausts them. it makes me so sad! i hope your work helps
i consider myself very lucky to have been bad enough at college to drop out of three different universities. i never stopped learning, but i managed to dodge a truckload of debt :
19:42 an instruction is a symbol representing an operation.... Instructions both are memory and operate on memory... instructions are what make programming programming and not electrical engineering...
Very well worded! Love listening to this vid! well done!
You are talking about exactly the things that were missing in my life as a professional developer. So happy to be on this journey led by you
Thanks! So glad. My hair is a constant source of continuity problems so I'm glad it's doing something right 🤣
Okay is a commitment now I am here at the beginning and will be here at the end discussing with the top minds in the field and contributing on that level
I watched your video on assembly and thought you were a fantastic teacher. This video is wonderful and I am excited to follow the course.
The gods of the algo smiled upon me, recommending this gem.Need more
I just did the intro puzzle, and the moment when the solution worked was absolutely magical. I actually laughed. Thank you :)
Interesting approach to the topic, I found it very relaxed and easy to listen to.
Wow awesome explanation! I’ve been programming for 20+ years and have never dived deep like this and am looking forward to learning from you! Subscribed! ❤️
I'm mostly into scripting for blueprints in unreal engine, but I feel like this helps me understand the bigger picture around me!
El algoritmo me trajo hasta aquí, muy buen video y espero que sigan los videos ! Saludos desde Perú🇵🇪
Been writing code since I was around 12, freelancing since I was in my teens and working corporate as a software engineer for almost 10 years now (I’m just about to be 30) and you talk about technology how I have always felt :3. I’m so glad I came across your videos! You’re awesome 🥰💖
finally. an ACTUAL educator on youtube. Not some bs frameworker
This is exactly the vibe which we need in our world. The romanticism is what we truly need to augment with the dry mechanistic attitude that we are bombarded with. The way you started this video exactly vibed. I can't exactly put into words. I am looking forward to this. The last time I felt this was when I was working through SICP book.
I discovered your channel in my recommendations, I'm glad I found this channel. Thank you so much for creating the educational content.
Edit: even though I did and understand programming of microprocessors and microcontrollers along with C/C++ for a quite long time. This would be amazing to watch and see the new perspective which I might have missed regarding the in depth learning and visualization of every part of this project.
this whole thing is wonderful. i remember i use to stare at circuit boards and just look at all the components in awe. as i got older i learned a lot about pc's just from playing video games and needing to troubleshoot problems when my games wouldnt work and surprisingly you can learn a LOT by just trying to get your video games to work. i eventually started to really want to know how to program. i've learned a lot of C but use Cpp more then any other. The prob is i have this weee little issue that happens a lot.. whenever i go to learn something in some field, i start learning the basics and right as i get past the basics and see what the was built up from I start getting this overwhelming feeling that i cannot learn that without learning all the things that make it up. kinda like i feel like i have to learn the architecture before it. It is a very irritating thing because i feel like i'm constantly going backwards.
SO, i'm excited to see what this course is going to teach... like VERY excited
Thanks so much @burntt999! I do sometimes feel like those early video games were just a trick to force us to learn how computers worked... I totally relate to what you said about needing to learn the things that make up the thing you're trying to learn - the other side of it is that once you do learn those things you've learned a whole lot more!
I don't know why It's never clicked for me like this but when you started talking about instructions it made me go "wow it really is a Turing machine!"
this is exactly what i needed coz i usually use Frida for runtime modification , this is must be the game changer
is there anyway to modify the string value without character size ?
i love this. i wish more tech people thought this way - how do we actually teach and uplift everyone to be able to understand and contribute at the highest level? also, to have this mindset when learning? i am a product designer and have dipped my toes into coding many times and i'm coming to the realization that i need to be really comfortable with it to bring my ideas into life. but the problem you said about the level of work being low or stagnant also occurs in my field. i suspect across many fields in tech. o will definitely be following along this endless course!
As a full-time embedded SW engineer writing C everyday, I only recently did a little deeper dive (still shallow) into ARM assembly for modifying a kernel and I felt exactly this excitement you are so brilliantly portraying here.
Love the video and the spirit. Keep up the good work. I will go about and recommend this to everyone I know who could be interested in CS.
Great move btw to go straight to C and then to ASM! Once one understands this path, everything else is easy. Just more abstractions of the same concept...
Side note: if your demo program had started with "int name = 1;" it would have put out 0x0DE5 at some stage. Would've been a nice easter egg ;)
Cool stuff - thx for sharing! I used to write games for the Commodore Amiga, and Sega Genesis - all in 68000 assembly language...and was always intimately aware of the memory, data / opcodes you describe here, particularly when optimizing and or debugging. Nice to see that some are still learning the fundamentals, and in this case sharing it out too... Watching from North Vancouver, Canada! Regards, Jules.
This is a nice authentic approach to show what goes on under the hood. Keep it up.
I've come across you via algo as I am self teaching myself programming. I am not a programmer yet so I don't think this is for me but more power to you for helping others learn and expand, It's a wonderful thing your doing.
Thank you for your kind words! Mind if I ask what you're learning at the moment? I have in my mind at some point to build something useful to those earlier on so I'm curious to know!
@@neoeno4242 I've been playing around with Tiny bits of Python but I really want to start properly with C, I feel like I will learn more without abstractions in the way. I have ADHD/Dyslexia and Dyspraxia so as you can imagine Kay learning for me is an immense effort. So I may stick with Python I may not. Any advice welcome!
That'll definitely add some obstacles. I have taught a fair few people with ADHD, quite significant dyslexia who went on to succeed in the field. I think often they approached topics in a few different ways in order to find a route that made sense - perhaps different for every topic. Apart from that, probably my main advice would be to find topics and projects that really engage and excite you. The more interesting they are, the more you will want to do them and the easier it will be to get through the tougher parts. So optimise for "as much coding as possible" and only then for the particular topics you think you 'should' be learning. Those will come with time, and computing is such a tightly connected field that as long as you're learning in some area then it'll help with everything.
It may or may not work for you, but a couple years ago I made a short intro to Python course for my previous employer. Linking it here in case it's useful - github.com/makersacademy/intro-to-python/blob/main/000_START_HERE.md
Good luck!
Wow. Amazing, amazing job. Technical, relatable, informative... you are doing a stellar job with translating low level technical mumbojumbo to relatable, colloquial phrases. Keep it up!!! ❤️🙏🤟
Fantastic! Subscribed and awaiting your next video in the series.
Great initiative! I greatly appreciate your efforts
Am grateful this video was recommended to me. Ia had been procrastinating learning the c and assembly with IDA
Great stuff, so glad I found your channel and excited for what's to come!
Woah, fantastic work! subscribed.
I also agree with you that the lower level can give you some good ideas on the road ahead and throughout my career i always felt that some things that took more time for me to solve was the ones that involved more low level knowledge.
Keep it up.
i love your Bjarne Stroutrup'esque hair cut!
This is GOLD. A breath of fresh air from all the noise in the space. I'm currently in the situation you described. working with high level tools and not being able to go beyond them because of professional work and sometimes just being overwhelmed when trying to dig a little deeper. I'll be sticking around till the end. I've subscribed. Sending greetings from Ghana. Do you have a discord for discussions?
Thanks! So nice to read and glad also :) No discord as yet but I’ll be adding a community aspect in future so look out for that when it arrives
I hope to see more of these! It’s great to have someone walk me through Theory of Computation simply because it’s a wonder to behold, while recognizing that much of what current systems rely on was made in ways (and for reasons) we may fundamentally disagree with. Your videos will certainly help with my quest to interpret interpretability. Thank you for sharing what you’ve learned!
This is fantastic. I've been wanting to get into reversing and this is a great intro.
well... this is a cool rec from the algo! Sticking around to see how this goes!
most beautiful cs instructor
that was so rad .. i just wanna watch it go for hours
I was programming in assembly in the early eighties, then after switching to C programming, I was looking at the assembly instructions generated by the compiler to begin with. By the 90s when I was using C++, I didn't look at the low level details on the computer, but only in the external electronics that I was building. Many languages and years later, I started playing with python. While thinking of interesting projects, one idea was to write an emulator for one of the 8 bit CPUs that I programmed in assembly back in the 80s.
yt algo suggested this in kazakhstan. greeting from Kazakhstan! very good material and amazin presentation! thank you
I want to try this!! I have been looking for something just like this so thank you. The approach towards seeing software and computers as HUMAN ARTIFACTS and of CULTURE. The Garrity clip is everything too lol. So inspiring. Also your haircut is so cute 🥰
Thanks :)
I have Goosebumps while watching this, thank you so much for this refreshing video ♥
I am feeling you and think I know what kind of curiosity you mean. Lost it over the course of time and employment hoping it will come back once i don't have to work any more.
Sending good vibes on your quest
I am so thankful that I have found you and your channel!
please don't stop, love from brazil
Really looking forward to this, sounds exactly within my interests. Hope I don't forget about it!
I relate to every word you say, you are a cool person, I also didnt do a degree in computing and choose mechanical engineering for the same reason. although its a bit hard to find time to do what you love when you have so much responsibilities
Your introduction, especially the first 11 minutes, is really impressive. Sorry for judging you, but you seem like a person with a rich emotional sensitivity (not in a way of being overly sensitive). It may be a bit unorganized, but it really struck a chord with me. I hope you maintain this mood.
Thanks! That's a nice thing to say :)
The best computer scientists have an undeterred appreciation for the laws that govern the universe. Some of the most thoughtful people among us
Very curious about the next videos. Thank you for content.
I don't know how i got here, but I've already shouted "FUNCTIONS DESCRIIIIBE THE WOOORLD!!!" at all my family members at some point today.
Great video! I relate with your core ideas on so many levels. Love the down-to-earth tone. Good luck!
That guy mentioned at 3:04 is Eric S. Raymond, the author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and "The Art of Unix Programming" books. He is one of the most influential guys within the Open Source field.
I did the exercise u proposed, learn a lot from it. Keep the wanderful work! Love your videos.
Absolutely loved this! Already signed up on 0DE5 :)
Lovely video! Lovely channel find! Thanks Algo, Thanks Kay
glad I found this channel. good work.
gained a fan from Ghana. I will be looking forward to more of the interesting videos you got.
I didn't get a degree either! Neither did I go to a bootcamp. I was, I guess lucky, to have a few years of intense boredom and depression at a job I hated, but where I could easily squirrel away at something.
I don't think people need to go through what I went through, but I do think that those years where I wasn't doing it for money, there was no pressure except curiosity, made me the engineer that I am.
I feel like we have some similarities!
Found your channel today. Looks interesting. Have to come back and watch again so subscribed.
Got this video recommend to me while making coffee in the morning! I agree i started programming in 2020 because i was very bored with my life and was intereged by the C language and the wonders behind it! Nowadays the magic of the programming is lost for me due to the garbage things we have to do to make ends meet...
Mike Rowe has the best advice on work. "Do something you do well." Basically ignore all that "do what makes your heart sing" and "passion" and all that revisionist post-modern rot, The modern world already has plenty of people doing something they love poorly. If you can do something well enough, your craft merges with art as in artisan (Not art like the latest opening from the ceramics department grad students expressing politics through angry splats of clay).
I'm ready for the course. I'm a Knuth, Hore, Dykstra, Van der Linden guy and found errors in derivations in Numerical Recipes, etc. But when I see good modern code being written by a really competent person, it is quite different (and I think much better) from what I do.
Free tip: Never use the word "what" unless you are asking a question. "What I am seeing here is..." --> Here I am seeing... Pedagogically using a question word sets up a gognitive disonance in the listener who goes on the alert for the question they are being asked to answer. When there is no question they have to mentally catch up with information. Plus it is wasted words. Bonus: Never say "and I will get to that later" or any of its kin. It is never needed.
Thanks Charles - interesting tips, your logic around 'what' makes sense. I'm curious if you might share more about why you wouldn't use "and I will get to that later"? For me, it's a conscious decision in order to allow the mind of the learner to comfortably disregard topics that might not yet be completely resolved in their minds, enabling them to focus limited working memory on what I am about to cover. The ideal of course is that you can sequence everything so that's unnecessary, but not always practical. Curious on your take.
@@neoeno4242 I feel the same way about "later" if you can't avoid it. My reason for avoiding is those whose imagination will race off in that direction and not hear a thing after that. Most of the time I hear this on YT, it isn't needed. I think it is often driven by wanting to keep people watching. Other times the speaking thinks it is helpful. I don't like to use "forward references", particularly on complicated or difficult material, like deriving an equation or giving directions. Even "then set this aside till later" is much more distracting than "then set this aside to dry".
I saw today that current students have often never been required to read an entire book. Combine that kind of curriculum with Tiktok and Instagram and scrolling attention spans and I think we need to really work on keeping information linear and minimize word count.
On the other hand, catering to deficiencies instead of correcting them is a road to ruin. But the "experts" and admins and Ed schools have forced "group cooperative activities" and no lecturing and no Socratic methods on us. Basically refusing to use the forms that have produced everything we have today in favor of a theory about something "better". (Arthur C. Clarke once said "For Every Expert there is an Equal and Opposite Expert")
i'm in love! so happy i found this course :D
Havent seen the video yet, but the comments make me want to watch it. Looking forward to watch it this afternoon :)
Thank you algorithm
Oh this is a thorough exploration down the 'metal' towards the compiling and CPU.
I am terrible with HEX very good for me.
this is very useful and much-needed, you have gotten a new follower
Interesting, this video was recommended to me just after I started learning Rust.
Nothing really new for me, but the content is awesome!
Phenomenal stuff, thank you and looking forward to the subsequent videos!
Not sure why the algorithm pointed you in my direction. Anyway the videos are interesting with a curious take on the topics. I'm also a technical trainer but in the mobile telecomms field as well as software engineering. I did that job for over 12 years and have been a software engineer for nearly 40 years. I'm trans and getting rather old and not far from retirement. But i'm also humble enough to know there are always new ways to look at things and new things to learn. I didnt do a CS degree either. I did electrical and electronic engineering in the days before modern personal computers were a big thing although i did have Sinclair Spectrum and learned Z80 assembly language. The BBC Micro had not long come out when i was in my final year at university and i got to do a final year project with one. So we were not taught much about programming. So all my knowledge is mostly self taught. Keep up the good work Kay!
Thanks @carolinemathieson :) Appreciate the comment 🏳️⚧️
I really appreciate the effort kay!!
keep making more of these videos.
Thank you for sparking the flame of my passion once again. I had become so jaded that I forgot that thrill I felt when I was a child. 8:37 I laughed, because you're right! They are incredible! Taking a moment to feel the awe once again was vivifying! I'm grateful I came across this today
Haven't learned this much since Björk made the video explaining how her TV works. Very similar style, though it's actually electrical engineering.
This sounds so cool, looking forward to learning more about low level programming. :)
There's a level to this and you are just amazing
I guess I'm inspired to learn assembly now
Wow. I don't understand anything but seems really interesting. I am taking some of the big structural lessons away, which is very helpful.
Signed up and incredibly excited.
This is beautiful, thanks a ton for all your effort.
The algorithm gods have blessed me once again
Hah, I don't know how I ended here but I'm intrigued. I knew you by reputation at Makers. Keep up the good work