![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and was named one of Microsoft's seven Windows Pioneers. Charles Petzold is an American programmer and technical author on Microsoft Windows applications.No matter what your level of technical savvy, CODE will charm you-and perhaps even awaken the technophile within. It's a cleverly illustrated and eminently comprehensible story-and along the way, you'll discover you've gained a real context for understanding today's world of PCs, digital media, and the Internet. He wrote a bunch of other books too, but they’re mostly about programming applications for Microsoft Windows, and they’re all obsolete now. Using everyday objects and familiar language systems such as Braille and Morse code, author Charles Petzold weaves an illuminating narrative for anyone who's ever wondered about the secret inner life of computers and other smart machines. Charles Petzold is also the author of The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (Wiley, 2008). 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. What do flashlights, the British invasion. 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. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. ![]()
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