Forth Lessons

This is a series of lessons on the Forth programming language and Open Firmware. New lessons are added periodically, so check back frequently or watch the page if you are interested.

• Forth Lesson 0 - Motivation and Basic Syntax
• Forth Lesson 1 - Stack and Numbers
• Forth Lesson 2 - Stack diagrams and Comments
• Forth Lesson 3 - Arithmetic Operators and Calculations
• Forth Lesson 4 - Making New Definitions
• Forth Lesson 5 - Introspection
• Forth Lesson 6 - Variables and Data Storage
• Forth Lesson 7 - Control Structures
• Forth Lesson 8 - Strings
• Forth Lesson 9 - Open Firmware Device Tree Basics
• Forth Lesson 10 - Device Node Methods
• Forth Lesson 11 - Device Instances
• Forth Lesson 12 - Booting
• Forth Lesson 13 - Editing Files
• Forth Lesson 14 - Some Cute Hacks
• Forth Lesson 15 - The Forth Debugger
• Forth Lesson 16 - Finding PCI Physical Addresses
• Forth Lesson 17 - Virtual Address Mapping
• Forth Lesson 18 - Data Structures / Create Does>
• Forth Lesson 19 - CD>, Debugging and User Data

External links

See also the following pages for more forth information:

• A Forth Primer
• FIG
• Gforth
• Gforth Manual
• Starting Forth An excellent introduction by Leo Brodie
• Thinking Forth Leo Brodie's book about Forth Philosophy