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If you are interested in how computers work this will give you the needed knowledge.

But I think book is a good introduction and reminder of how things really work and what had been done in the past 100 years that we don’t need to work with assembly or binary anymore. My university had more a practical approach on computer science and software engineering. He wrote a bunch of other books too, but they’re mostly about programming applications for Microsoft Windows, and they’re all obsolete now. The second edition was fully revised and provides a website with interactive circuit examples. Charles Petzold is also the author of The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (Wiley, 2008). And within this you’ll see how they are really working and bound together!įurthermore there is also a chapter to my beloved topic of clocks! After this introduction electrical circuits are build to a working CPU with an ALU and memory. Author 1, Charles Petzold Book Description, What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers In CODE, they show us. Petzold starts with some real life examples and adapts them to our computers. And what technically the difference between hardware and software is. I linked some courses which you can audit for free.Code by Charles Petzold provides a compact bottom to top overview of how computers really work. If you want to learn about this information, IMO, a project-oriented resource is best. Buy a cheap copy of Code: The Hidden Language of Computer. I enjoyed chapter eleven, since I was not familiar with gates. Some of the information here is a refresher for me, but its very intense. Although its full of technical and historical information, its not beginner friendly.

Chapter Twenty-Five – The Graphical Revolution.

Chapter Twenty-Four – Languages High and Low.

Chapter Twenty-Three – Fixed Point, Floating Point.

Chapter Twenty-Two – The Operating System.

Chapter Twenty – ASCII and a Cast of Characters.

Chapter Nineteen – Two Classic Microprocessors.

Chapter Sixteen – An Assemblage of Memory.

Chapter Fourteen – Feedback and Flip-Flops.

Chapter Thirteen – But What About Subtraction?.

Chapter Twelve – A Binary Adding Machine.

Chapter Three – Braille and Binary Codes.Using everyday objects and familiar language systems such as Braille and Morse code, author Charles Petzold weaves an illuminated narrative for anyone who's ever wondered about the secret inner life of computers and other smart machines. You will build a computer from scratch, using old technology. The book targets people who have a general interest in computing. This is a review of the paperback edition. As part of an online syllabus, one of the requirements is to read the book: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold.