[20wenty]

I second this -- I just found the Ben Eater series a month or so ago and put together his computer clock over the holidays. It really helps you understand clock cycles, logic chips, etc, and is a good foundation for the 6502 kit you build later in the course. And learning Assembly before BASIC is the right learning path IMO, if only to understand how CPU registers work at the electron level.

[Joel_Mckay]

If one is interested in how internal PC registers work, than these build series do the classic eeprom microcode based CPU builds. Fabian's series is highly accessible, and builds a python based assembler from scratch. James series ends with a simple game design.

Cheers, =3

"Build a Superscalar CPU" (Fabian Schuiki)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwjMLyBU4RU&list=PLyR4neQXqQ...

https://github.com/fabianschuiki/superscalar-cpu

"Making an 8 Bit pipelined CPU" (James Sharman)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iHag4k4yEg&list=PLFhc0MFC8M...