Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly Preface to the Paperback Edition 1. Best Friends 2. Codes and Combinations 3. Braille and Binary Codes 4. Anatomy of a Flashlight 5. Seeing Around Corners 6. Telegraphs and Relays 7. Our Ten Digits 8. Alternatives to Ten 9. Bit by Bit by Bit 10. Logic and Switches 11. Gates (Not Bill) 12. A Binary Adding Machine 13. But What About Subtraction? 14. Feedback and Flip-Flops 15. Bytes and Hex 16. An Assemblage of Memory 17. Automation 18. From Abaci to Chips 19. Two Classic Microprocessors 20. ASCII and a Cast of Characters 21. Get on the Bus 22. The Operating System 23. Fixed Point, Floating Point 24. Languages High and Low 25. The Graphical Revolution A. Acknowledgments B. Bibliography About the Author Colophon SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly