# Tech Tuesday: Asking for Direction

By [Continuations](https://continuations.com) · 2011-12-13

tech tuesday, reader survey

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So I got up earlier than usual this morning to work on a post about more details on how CPUs work and some actual assembly language.  In particular I was planning to introduce the notion of registers and maybe the stack (all of this using a neat [web-based 6502 emulator](http://e-tradition.net/bytes/6502/)).  

But then it occurred to me that I really don’t have a good sense of whether this is what folks want to read about.  So I figured I would provide a quick recap instead and then lay out some possible directions.

So far Tech Tuesday has covered:

1\. [An Overview of Building Blocs](http://continuations.com/post/11313999634/tech-tuesdays-computings-building-blocks-overview)

2\. [Of Bits and Bytes (Binary Number System)](http://continuations.com/post/11610378537/tech-tuesday-of-bits-and-bytes-binary-number-system)

3\. [A First Look at the Central Processing Unit (CPU)](http://continuations.com/post/11905023100/tech-tuesday-a-first-look-at-the-central-processing)

4\. [Main Memory (Dumb, Lazy and Slow)](http://continuations.com/post/12194075974/tech-tuesday-main-memory-dumb-lazy-and-slow)

5\. [Storage (Oh My, How It Has Grown)](http://continuations.com/post/12510627878/tech-tuesday-storage-oh-my-how-it-has-grown)

6\. [No Computer is an Island (Networking)](http://continuations.com/post/12834145139/tech-tuesday-no-computer-is-an-island-networking)

7\. [Input/Output (Interrupts and Queues)](http://continuations.com/post/13156126080/tech-tuesday-input-output-interrupts-and-queues)

8\. [Operating Systems (Making It All Work)](http://continuations.com/post/13498372866/tech-tuesday-operating-systems-making-it-all-work)

9\. [Programming (A Start)](http://continuations.com/post/13823734190/tech-tuesday-programming-a-start)

From here there are a great many places to go.  So let me describe three different possibilities for what’s next and see if there are any strong preferences.

**Programming Basics**: This would take a language such as Javascript and introduce basic programming concepts such as variables and controls structures (e.g. branching, loops).  Would probably leverage Codeacademy.

**Lower Level Programming**: This is sort of where I was headed before deciding to ask for direction.  The sequence would start by taking a look inside the CPU and its registers.  We would then examine some assembly code and work our way up towards programming in C.

**Web Technologies**: This would be a series of posts covering what HTML is, how the HTTP request cycle works, and how domain names are resolved to IP addresses.  I might also throw in some CSS and Javascript.

I am planning to cover all of these topics and many more eventually so this is not a question about whether or not any of these should be part of Tech Tuesdays, rather what to cover next.  So to get help with this I am trying to get a better sense of the audience currently reading Tech Tuesdays and what your are all interested in.  There are only four questions.  The more people answer, the better I can make the series.

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*Originally published on [Continuations](https://continuations.com/tech-tuesday-asking-for-direction)*