Code The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Name: Code The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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ISBN: 9780735611313

ISBN-10: 0735611319

ISBN-13: 9780735611313

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Charles Petzold

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Using everyday objects and familiar language systems such as Braille and Morse code, CODE shows us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other, culminating in today's digital technologies.

Book details

List price: $29.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 10/11/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition



Best Friends



Codes and Combinations



Braille and Binary Codes



Anatomy of a Flashlight



Seeing Around Corners



Telegraphs and Relays



Our Ten Digits



Alternatives to Ten



Bit by Bit by Bit



Logic and Switches



Gates (Not Bill)



A Binary Adding Machine



But What About Subtraction?



Feedback and Flip-Flops



Bytes and Hex



An Assemblage of Memory



Automation



From Abaci to Chips



Two Classic Microprocessors



ASCII and a Cast of Characters



Get on the Bus



The Operating System



Fixed Point, Floating Point



Languages High and Low



The Graphical Revolution


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


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