Useful URLS
on logic gates
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213512,00.html
http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/gates.htm#symbols
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate
simulators for logic gates
http://web.mit.edu/ara/www/ds.html
http://www.softronix.com/logic.html
on hashing with definitions and an animation:
http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~morris/Year2/PLDS210/hash_tables.html
on hash functions:
http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~morris/Year2/PLDS210/hash_func.html
from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function