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Code

Paperback • 2000 • English

Code

By Charles Petzold

3 Ratings • 3.0 of 5

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About the book

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 illuminat...Show more

Computer programming / software engineering

Book details

ISBN

9780735611313

Publisher

MICROSOFT PRESS

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Code

Format

Paperback

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Datamaskinens skjulte verden

Datamaskinens skjulte verden

Paperback · 2001

Code

Code

Hardcover · 1999

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3 Ratings • 3.0 of 5

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