Re: Need C++ tutor for 10th grade student

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:54:14 -0500 
"Nicholas Bodley" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> Being a professional codger, I was very lucky some decades ago to be   
> taught right from the ground up -- binary, circuits, logic, and low-level   
> programming. One really knows how a computer of that era worked! It was   
> rather expected that binary numbers and logic were not difficult, but   
> extremely different in several ways from one's usual experience. 
> Until then, I'd been as mystified as almost anyone else how computers   
> worked. Once it had been (beautifully) explained, I realized (with   
> newly-taught background) that they are not exotic and mysterious; basics   
> are rather simple*. What is significant, though, is that the ideas are   
> very clever and (at one time) very innovative, very different in many   
> ways. *or were, then, before it became possible to do the likes of branch   
> prediction, speculative and out-of-order execution, instruction   
> reordering, etc.