Shimon Schocken

Shimon is professor of computer science at IDC Herzliya, founding dean of IDC's Efi Arazi school of computer science, and visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard University and Stanford university. In addition to computer science education, Shimon is committed to empowering the learning and teaching of early age mathematics.

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Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: Nand to Tetris Part II (project-centered course) (Coursera)

In this project-centered course you will build a modern software hierarchy, designed to enable the translation and execution of object-based, high-level languages on a bare-bone computer hardware platform. In particular, you will implement a virtual machine and a compiler for a simple, Java-like programming language, and you will develop [...]

Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris (Project-Centered Course) (Coursera)

In this project-centered course* you will build a modern computer system, from the ground up. We’ll divide this fascinating journey into six hands-on projects that will take you from constructing elementary logic gates all the way through creating a fully functioning general purpose computer. In the process, you will [...]