How to Properly wire Logic Gates onto Breadboard. Wiring an AND gate neatly. 

Very useful video, especially for the beginners! The whole connecting the bus bars properly thing, is so important... I personally got really sick of connecting my bus bars to each other with each project, especially since my jumper kits don't come with a pre-cut wire length for that, so I went through all my breadboards and connected them nice and neatly with perfectly cut length wires, and now I just leave them on my breadboards in storage. Like you, I feel like crossing the board/chip with wires is just barbaric... I literally go a little crazy if my breadboard starts to look like a messy nest, so I wasn't having any of that. LOL Although, on a side note: I do wish breadboards had some optional way to quickly connect the busses together, without having to run jumpers all the way across, built into them by default... PS: Also, looking up datasheets all the time finally drove me to buy a laser printer. Now I print and staple them into booklets (booklet printing is aaaawesome!), and I've got myself a nice little library going. This was great with my 9-LED driver chip's datasheet, because it's almost 60 pages long and has a bunch of programming stuff I needed to learn, so I would take that booklet with me and I could read it at the table, or on the go, until I was finally able to digest and understand this complex chip.

So nice thanks