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Sometimes my friends from other fields will ask me to explain/draw out how a computer works

Its much harder than I thought

I started off explaining binary and how groups of wires can be used to represent numbers

Lost them somewhere around explaining gates/adders

I think its so difficult because there are so many layers of abstraction and you really need some basic electronics knowledge

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> I think its so difficult because there are so many layers of abstraction and you really need some basic electronics knowledge

I think you really should go "top down" not "bottom up" for something like this.

If you get stuck around gates then you've taught people nothing. If you start at the top and get stuck after "network packets" then hopefully people at least understand the internet better.

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