My name is Marie I am a student and I joined here a few weeks ago. Really looking forward to learning so great things from you all, the open discussions, and possibly meeting new people in my area!!
UnixGuy Thank you! I am studying CompTia A+. My main goal is to work my way up to Cyber. That's been my interest for years! I am glad to be getting help here. Sometimes I feel as though it's a lot to take in..... I really pray i pass my exams.. was it hard for any of you here?
I didn't do the A+ certification until I was 20 years into IT... and I only took it because I was offered a position to teach at a community college and they required the certification for instructors to be able to teach the requisite courses. I have looked at the materials in the past and I have to say that while much of what they have eliminated from the course isn't necessary, it is highly valuable. When I teach it, I love to cover it a layer or two deeper than what is required for the exam. If you can understand it at that level, the exam will be no problem.
I would recommend to anyone that wants a deeper understanding to check out one or both of these books:
* Code, by Charles Petzlold (Microsoft Press, 2000) * The Elements of Computing Systems, by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken (MIT Press, 2008)
Each of these books covers computing far deeper than you're going to get anywhere outside of a rigorous Computer Engineering program. The main differences are that the Nisan and Schocken book starts with a NAND gate (all other logic gates can be built from NAND) and works you up to building integrated circuits, CPU/Memory, then assembler, an OS, and an Object Oriented language. The Petzold book is like a prequel to that in that it starts with electricity and relays, but continues up the stack from there (with a little less practical usage of later topics, just touching them each at a high level).
Choosing either or both are great for REALLY understanding what is happening.
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I would recommend to anyone that wants a deeper understanding to check out one or both of these books:
* Code, by Charles Petzlold (Microsoft Press, 2000)
* The Elements of Computing Systems, by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken (MIT Press, 2008)
Each of these books covers computing far deeper than you're going to get anywhere outside of a rigorous Computer Engineering program. The main differences are that the Nisan and Schocken book starts with a NAND gate (all other logic gates can be built from NAND) and works you up to building integrated circuits, CPU/Memory, then assembler, an OS, and an Object Oriented language. The Petzold book is like a prequel to that in that it starts with electricity and relays, but continues up the stack from there (with a little less practical usage of later topics, just touching them each at a high level).
Choosing either or both are great for REALLY understanding what is happening.