Chapter 1 Complete!

Posted by a1ph4byte on Jan 05, 2023; 8:15pm
URL: http://nand2tetris-questions-and-answers-forum.52.s1.nabble.com/Chapter-1-Complete-tp4037022.html

I finished building the 15 basic chips. I'm curious though, the Coursera course says it should take about 5 hours for this assignment, was this anyone else's experience?

It took me about 16hrs in total, a handful of the more complex chips just did not come to me intuitively, although, I did try and force myself to find the elegant/optimal solution rather than hucking a bunch of gates to solve the problems.

After contriving a few solutions, I looked them up online. In retrospect, the optimal solutions are so clear and simple, but I'm frustrated that I did not see them at the start.