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Code

by Charles Petzold

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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. 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. Using everyday objects and familiar language systems such as Braille and Morse code, author Charles Petzold weaves an illuminatin...

First published 1999476 pages
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Category
Computer Science
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QA0076.60000000 P495 1999QA0076.60000000.P495 1999
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CoderingstheorieCoding theoryComputer programmingComputer scienceComputersComputers & the internetDatenverarbeitungEinfu hrungEinführungHardwareMachine theoryProgrammatuurtechniek
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ISBN 9780735638723English
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