Because Bartee teaches you to build the foundation, not just stand on it.
For the self-taught programmer who has never touched a soldering iron, reading Bartee’s Sixth Edition is like a magician learning the secret of the trapdoor. It demystifies the machine. If you manage to find a clean, OCR’d, sixth edition PDF of Thomas C. Bartee’s Digital Computer Fundamentals , guard it jealously. Because Bartee teaches you to build the foundation,
5/5 Logic Gates. Indispensable for the hardware curious. Because Bartee teaches you to build the foundation,