No matter what your level of technical savvy, CODE will charm you-and perhaps even awaken the technophile within. 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. 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 isnt enough to understand electronics or programming to really understand how a computer works. In these circuits, toggle the state of the switches with either mouse clicks or finger taps. 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. The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software 2nd Edition Chapter 6: Logic with Switches This chapter explores how simple circuits constructed from switches, batteries, lightbulbs, and wires can carry out logical operations. EBook includes PDF, ePub and Kindle versionĭESCRIPTION BOOK : 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.
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