Code – October 23, 1999

Code (DV-MPS General) Hardcover – October 23, 1999

Author: Visit Amazon's Charles Petzold Page | Language: English | ISBN: 073560505X | Format: PDF, EPUB

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• Series: DV-MPS General
• Hardcover: 393 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (October 23, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 073940752X
• ISBN-13: 978-0735605053
• ASIN: 073560505X
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.4 x 9.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,170 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #1 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Software Design, Testing & Engineering > Coding Theory
  • #8 in Books > Computers & Technology > Computer Science > AI & Machine Learning > Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition
  • #72 in Books > Textbooks > Computer Science > Software Design & Engineering

I think that this is the best book that I have read all year. In some sense this is the book that I have been looking for for twenty-five years--the book that will enable me to understand how a computer does what it does. And--given the centrality of computers in our age--it has been a long wait. But now it is over. Charles Petzold (1999), Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software does a much better job than anything else I have ever seen in explaining computers--what they really are, and how they really work.
Have you ever wondered just how your computers really work? I mean, really, really work. Not as in "an electrical signal from memory tells the processor the number to be added," but what the electrical signal is, and how it accomplishes the magic of switching on the circuits that add while switching off the other circuits that would do other things with the number. I have. I have wondered this a lot over the past decades.
Yet somehow over the past several decades my hunger for an explanation has never been properly met. I have listened to people explain how two switches wired in series are an "AND"--only if both switches are closed will the lightbulb light. I have listened to people explain how IP is a packet-based communications protocol and TCP is a connection-based protocol yet the connection-based protocal can ride on top of the packet-based protocol. Somehow these explanations did not satisfy. One seemed like answering "how does a car work?" by telling how in the presence of oxygen carbon-hydrogen bonds are broken and carbon dioxide and water are created. The other seemed like anwering "how does a car work" by telling how if you step on the accelerator the car moves forward.

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