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Code : the hidden language of computer hardware and software /

By: Petzold, Charles, 1953- [author.].
Publisher: Redmond, Washington : Microsoft Press, 2000, (2015)Description: iv, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780735611313; 9780735611313:; 0735611319.Subject(s): Computer programming | Electronic digital computers | Coding theoryDDC classification: 003.54
Contents:
Best friends -- Codes and combinations -- Braille and binary codes -- Anatomy of a flashlight -- Seeing around corners -- Telegraphs and relays -- Our ten digits -- Alternatives to ten -- Bit by bit by bit -- Logic and switches -- Gates (not Bill) -- A binary adding machine -- But what about subtraction? -- Feedback and flip-flops -- Bytes and hex -- An assemblage of memory -- Automation -- From abaci to chips -- Two classic microprocessors -- ASCII and a cast of characters -- Get on the bus -- The operating system -- Fixed point, floating point -- Languages high and low -- Graphical revolution.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 003.54 PET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0063679
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Includes index.

Best friends -- Codes and combinations -- Braille and binary codes -- Anatomy of a flashlight -- Seeing around corners -- Telegraphs and relays -- Our ten digits -- Alternatives to ten -- Bit by bit by bit -- Logic and switches -- Gates (not Bill) -- A binary adding machine -- But what about subtraction? -- Feedback and flip-flops -- Bytes and hex -- An assemblage of memory -- Automation -- From abaci to chips -- Two classic microprocessors -- ASCII and a cast of characters -- Get on the bus -- The operating system -- Fixed point, floating point -- Languages high and low -- Graphical revolution.

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