Your First Computer

If you're a new player, you might have already built a few circuits already: an adder, some kind of memory, a decoder. But getting to the next level where you have a functioning and turing complete computer, is incredibly daunting. This article will serve as a guide to how you might build your first computer.

The structure of the computer in this article

Every computer follows this simple process:

• A place that stores instructions sends an instruction to the computer.
• The instruction gets decoded by the control, and tells the rest of the computer what to do.
• Sometimes these instructions the Arithmetic and Logic Unit (henceforth, ALU), to operate on data given by the registers.