Course material & Preparation

You need the followings to start the course. You can prepare and get a smooth start.

Course book:

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles by Nisan and Schocken, MIT Press. Possible to order at the larger swedish internet bookshops.

Software:

Download the software tools from: http://www.nand2tetris.org/software.php. During the course you will use all the tools listed on the nand2tetris webpage.

Some projects will be done in C and/or Phyton. You need compilers for those.

Project group:¶

Students will be divided into 4 seminar groups. Within a seminar group, you will solve the project in pairs. You select your pair, but pairs are then fixed for the entire course.¶