Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Charles Petzold

393 pages first pub 1999 (editions) user-added

nonfiction computer science science challenging informative slow-paced

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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 ...

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