People usually worship something they don't understand.
The average joe that acts irrationally? I guess that might be true.I recommend you read some fundamental computer knowledge, that battery, wire and bubble experiment is a good start, then followed by "from nand to tetris".
I don't need to. There are better ways to learn boolean algebra than "from nand to tetris". I've yet to see how this is related to the OP.Even a teenager can build a computer using 3000 components.
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