CODE The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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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 means of communicating 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 weaves 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 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.
[Contents]
Preface to the Paperback Edition
code (kod) …
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
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Author
Colophon
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