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What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new ways to communicate with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity-and our very human compulsion to... read more
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First Sentence edit
You're 10 years old.
Table of Contents edit
1. Best Friends
2. Codes and Combinations
3. Braille and Binary Codes
4. Anatomy of a Flashlight
5. Seeing Around Corners
6. Telegraphs and Relays
7. Our Ten Digits
8. Alternatives to Ten
9. Bit by Bit by Bit
10. Logic and Switches
11. Gates (Not Bill)
12. A Binary Adding Machine
13. But What About Subtraction?
14. Feedback and Flip-Flops
15. Bytes and Hex
16. An Assemblage of Memory
17. Automation
18. From Abaci to Chips
19. Two Classic Microprocessors
20. ASCII and a Cast of Characters
21. Get on the Bus
22. The Operating System
23. Fixed Point, Floating Point
24. Languages High and Low
25. The Graphical Revolution
Appendix A. Acknowledgments
Appendix B. Bibliography
Colophon
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Joel On Software Reading List. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Charles Petzold (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Microsoft press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 29 September, 1999
ISBN: 0-7356-0505-X
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Microsoft press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 29 September, 1999
ISBN: 0-7356-0505-X
Page Count: 400
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 005.72
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- CODE The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software: Official site for the book
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