I am always puzzled by such articles - its actually very well made, drawings are good, little interactive pipeline animations are fine. But in order to follow it you must already know and understand what its writeen about and if you dont - the content is just noise for you.
Hi, I'm the author! Thanks for saying it's well made :).
I actually agree with you, the intended audience isn't someone who has never heard of CPUs before.
I tend to either write for myself: you know the saying you don't understand something until you try to explain. Or I'm writing for the person self-studying that is looking for that one explanation where everything finally clicks. I always get a lot out of those type of posts myself, so like to create them for others too.
You could use colors in the step-by-step simulation to show dependencies.
Also show some tooltips/comments when things happen (that you described above). Ideally one should press next next next in the simulation, and understand what happens better than the paragraph description above.
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I am always puzzled by such articles - its actually very well made, drawings are good, little interactive pipeline animations are fine. But in order to follow it you must already know and understand what its writeen about and if you dont - the content is just noise for you.
The article does say what it expects you to know before reading. However, it has a dead link to the knowledge it wants you to know.
Author here: thanks for flagging the dead link! Unfortunately, I had to remove it. I couldn't find the original slides.
Hi, I'm the author! Thanks for saying it's well made :).
I actually agree with you, the intended audience isn't someone who has never heard of CPUs before.
I tend to either write for myself: you know the saying you don't understand something until you try to explain. Or I'm writing for the person self-studying that is looking for that one explanation where everything finally clicks. I always get a lot out of those type of posts myself, so like to create them for others too.
You could use colors in the step-by-step simulation to show dependencies. Also show some tooltips/comments when things happen (that you described above). Ideally one should press next next next in the simulation, and understand what happens better than the paragraph description above.