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ZIN Product Number: 10204145
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 400 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN: 073560505X
Release Date: Jan 7, 2002
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
From the dots and dashes of Morse code to the 0s and 1s of computer programming, "Code" describes the ingenious ways humans have adapted language systems--code--to invent the machinery of the modern age. Petzold uses everyday household objects and readily recognizable codes such as Braille and Morse to build a context for understanding how computers work.
| | | | From The Publisher
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 communicate-have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries.
Using everyday objects and familiar language systems such as Braille and Morse code, author Charles Petzold provides non-programmers an illuminating narrative for anyone who's ever wondered about the secret inner life of computers and other smart machines.
It's a cleverly illustrated and eminently comprehensible story-and along the way, you'll discover that you've gained a real context for understanding today's world of PCs, digital media, and the Internet. No matter what your level of technical savvy, Code will charm you-and perhaps even awaken the technophile within.
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This is great
-- Jason Collins, a 20-year old former child prodigy, February 7, 2000
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This is great
-- Jason Collins, a 20-year old former child prodigy, February 7, 2000
Also Recommended: The age of spiritual machines Catcher in the rye A land remembered
| |  | | | | Ch. 1 | Best Friends | 3 | | Ch. 2 | Codes and Combinations | 9 | | Ch. 3 | Braille and Binary Codes | 15 | | Ch. 4 | Anatomy of a Flashlight | 22 | | Ch. 5 | Seeing Around Corners | 32 | | Ch. 6 | Telegraphs and Relays | 40 | | Ch. 7 | Our Ten Digits | 47 | | Ch. 8 | Alternatives to Ten | 54 | | Ch. 9 | Bit by Bit by Bit | 69 | | Ch. 10 | Logic and Switches | 86 | | Ch. 11 | Gates (Not Bill) | 102 | | Ch. 12 | A Binary Adding Machine | 131 | | Ch. 13 | But What About Subtraction? | 143 | | Ch. 14 | Feedback and Flip-Flops | 155 | | Ch. 15 | Bytes and Hex | 180 | | Ch. 16 | An Assemblage of Memory | 190 | | Ch. 17 | Automation | 206 | | Ch. 18 | From Abaci to Chips | 238 | | Ch. 19 | Two Classic Microprocessors | 260 | | Ch. 20 | ASCII and a Cast of Characters | 286 | | Ch. 21 | Get on the Bus | 301 | | Ch. 22 | The Operating System | 320 | | Ch. 23 | Fixed Point, Floating Point | 335 | | Ch. 24 | Language High and Low | 349 | | Ch. 25 | The Graphical Revolution | 364 | | Acknowledgments | 383 | | Index | 385 |
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Coding theory, Computer programming, Coding theory, Computer programming, Computer programming, Coding theory, Programming (Computers), Ciphers, Computer Bks - Languages / Programming, Computers, Programming - General, Computer Vision, General, Science, Computer Science
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