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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 393 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN: 0735611319
Release Date: Jan 7, 2002
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 6 reviews.)
| |  | | | 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. Now in paperback edition, this critically praised book weaves an inventive and eminently comprehensible narrative for anyone who's ever wondered about the secret inner life of computers and other smart machines. The work of legendary computer book author Charles Petzold has influenced an entire generation of programmers. And with CODE, Microsoft Press is proud to share this gifted teacher and communicator with every reader interested in understanding today's world of PCs, digital media, and the Internet.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 6 Average Rating:
Incredible
-- A reviewer, August 12, 2002
Incredible
-- A reviewer, August 12, 2002
Simply put. Ingenious.
-- Chad, a mechical engineer, February 20, 2001
Simply put. Ingenious.
-- Chad, a mechical engineer, February 20, 2001
Excellent book!
-- Robert Meisssen, a computer consultant in Chicago, November 9, 2000
Excellent book!
-- Robert Meisssen, a computer consultant in Chicago, November 9, 2000
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Charles Petzold is the author of Programming Windows, one of the bestselling computer programming books of all time. For those who are not programmers and who have not read his previous books, it is worth stressing that Charles is also an excellent writer with a natural style and voice that suit this subject and its readership.
| |  | | | Chapter 1: Best Friends
Chapter 2: Codes and Combinations
Chapter 3: Braille and Binary Codes
Chapter 4: Anatomy of a Flashlight
Chapter 5: Seeing Around Corners
Chapter 6: Telegraphs and Relays
Chapter 7: Our Ten Digits
Chapter 8: Alternatives to 10
Chapter 9: Bit by Bit by Bit
Chapter 10: Logic and Switches
Chapter 11: Gates (Not Bill)
Chapter 12: A Binary Adding Machine
Chapter 13: But What About Subtraction?
Chapter 14: Feedback and Flip-Flops
Chapter 15: Bytes and Hex
Chapter 16: An Assemblage of Memory
Chapter 17: Automation
Chapter 18: From Abaci to Chips
Chapter 19: Two Classic Microprocessors
Chapter 20: ASCII and a Cast of Characters
Chapter 21: Get on the Bus
Chapter 22: The Operating System
Chapter 23: Fixed Point, Floating Point
Chapter 24: Languages High and Low
Chapter 25: The Blossoming
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Computer Books: General, Computer Bks - Languages / Programming, Computers, Machine Theory, Data Processing - General, General
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