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Original Title:	Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
ISBN:	0735611319 (ISBN13: 9780735611313)
Edition Language:	English

Code Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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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.

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Title	:	Code
Author	:	Charles Petzold
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	October 21st 2000 by Microsoft Press (first published September 29th 1999)
Categories	:	Computer Science. Programming. Science. Nonfiction. Technology. Computers. Software

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This book basicaly tries to take you from the very basics of how to encode information, such as how binary is used to represent complex information, to understanding how a computer uses information like this to perform intricate operations. The route between those two points is the interesting part, and there was some parts that I foudn really illuminating and important. For example, I didn't understand hexadecimal numbers (or indeed what base 4, base 8, etc) numbers meant before I read this

Electricity is like nothing else in this universe, and we must confront it on it's own terms. That sentence, casually buried near the beginning of the book, exemplifies the engineer's muse: a striving to become aware of the inhuman, how it operates, and to find means of creating a socket for human enterprise, something to extend the fallible chassis of our flesh.The first two-thirds or so of this book follows a double track. One track covers the ways in which meaning may be encoded into

I'll be honest. I only read this book because it was quoted as a must read by Joel Spolsky on a stackexchange answer about how to go about learning programming (and finding out if you want/should be a programmer).I was a little hesitant due to the year of release. Being at least some 11 years old that's a lot of time in the tech world. Ultimately though that doesn't matter. I defy any developer/programmer/system builder to read this book and not blitz through it lapping it up. Yes if you've done

I LOVE this book. I regard myself an innocent computer illiterate. And Petzold helps me to walk inside an electrical circuit, a telephone, a telegraph, an adding machine, a computer, and to understand the basics behind the design, of what is going on inside. I start getting the math, the logic behind all this technology that has become pretty much the center of my life today. And I should understand the logic behind the center of my life, right? What is so good about this book: it is written in

Every single person in tech should read this book. Or if you're just interested in tech. Or if you just want a basic appreciation of one of the most important technologies in human historythe computer. This book contains the best, most accessible explanation I've seen of how computers work, from hardware to software. The author manages to cover a huge range of topicselectricity, circuits, relays, binary, logic, gates, microprocessors, code, and much morewhile doing a remarkable job of gradually

Raise your hand if you think metaphors and analogies should be used sparingly. I'll raise my hand with you. This book is for us.After reading this book, I can see behind the pixels on my computer screen. I know what I'm really looking at. So many layers of abstraction are removed by learning about how logic gates can be arranged as processors and RAM, how code is simply a representation of those microscopic switches being flipped, and how pixels are simply a graphical interpretation of the state

Definitely one of the greats. If not already, it soon will be, a staple of computer science literature. It's both a narrative history of Computer Science and a brilliant introduction to systems and programming. This book should be a pre-requisite for introductory CS classes.