Recommended · for beginners

How a CPU Works

In One Lesson

Why people recommend it

A video companion to the book But How Do It Know, explaining how a simple computer's parts fit together, linked by people building CPUs from logic chips.

Watch for: Conceptual rather than hands on; read the book for depth

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If you want to know more about what's in the book go here:

zack1544 on electronics.stackexchange.com, Dec 2015. CC BY-SA.

Here is a very well-done video explaining the concept.

user3629081 on electronics.stackexchange.com, Jun 2022. CC BY-SA.

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