All posts by Noah William

The Linux command line

2014-05-31Computer SoftwareNoah William

Here is a PDF file on how to use the Linux command line. You’ll need to read this to understand most of the software stuff here.

How to program assembly

2014-05-31Computer Software, ProgrammingNoah William

Here is a PDF book on how to use Linux in a much better way. You’ll need this to understand some of my later posts.

Edit: I forgot I should have first put up the PDF on how to use the Linux command line. Check the post after this one before reading this book.

An introduction to Linux.

2014-05-24Computer SoftwareNoah William

Here is an (admittedly slightly out of date) video about how to install Linux Mint which is an alternative to windows that I’m going to be using exclusively.

Also here is a brief overview of what Linux is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

Update: Here‘s a much more up-to-date guide on how to install it. Though the previous tutorial should still be useful for actually booting into Linux.

Common Lisp

2014-04-27Computer Software, ProgrammingNoah William

Here’s a book about an interesting language known as “common lisp” which is designed for multi-threading. http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

Lego Movie!

2014-03-03UncategorizedNoah William

The Lego Movie came out earlier last month, so to celebrate I’ve found some of the most interesting Lego creations I could find.

Extracting silicon

2013-09-26UncategorizedNoah William

Time for another unverified claim. Once again: I will be testing these out once I get any money at all.

How Jeri made her own transistor.

2013-09-20UncategorizedNoah William

This is a youtube page for someone who claims to have (and I very much think did) make her own homemade transistor: http://www.youtube.com/user/jeriellsworth I’ll try to replicate her results when I get the resources to do so.