Learning Resources

[Rentasunder]

I'm interested in learning how to build a computer in this game, but I can't find any clear resources to help me. Ideally I'd like to have a book that I could work through. I'm not a student and this doesn't apply to my job. I just think this stuff is fascinating and would like to learn it.

[Watermelon Juice]

ben eater on youtube.

[Choco]

This isnt a book and I am a beginner so I wouldn't know what to recommend but I am working through Ben Eaters 8-bit breadboard PC building playlist on YT, I am only a couple videos in but his teaching style is really excellent and already has given me the tools to build some very small fun projects in VCB

[Hunter X]

It comes with its own simulation tools so you might need to convert a few things if you wanted to build it in this game, but Nand2Tetris[www.nand2tetris.org] is a pretty good explanation of building a computer all the way from basic logic gates to writing an operating system, with practical exercises at each stage of the process.

[Maldito]

You could play MHRD alongside this game. MHRD is about making a computer, but by using code to put parts, inputs and outputs together. The game goes step by step making each component and then reusing them at later stages.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/

[Sunion]

Try Turing Complete

[Sanian]

For a more theoretical approach, I (software engineer, so no hardware experience at all) followed a 3 month course about microprocessor architecture, and we used the book "Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Structured Computer Organization". I thought it was really good. Doesn't dumb it down too much, but it's also not technical gibberisch only scholars can understand. Just really approachable. It uses a model of a very simple CPU that can do addition/subtraction to explain the basics of what goes on inside computers.

I would suggest you look up the name of that book on the Z-Library website, but they currently seem to have some *ahem* technical difficulties, particularly to do with the US government copyright law. But you can probably get it elsewhere too.