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+This is my work for building a functioning computer from scratch using nand gates. We are following the two courses on Coursera: 
+1. https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer
+2. https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2
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+Their website: https://www.nand2tetris.org/