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Understanding Personal Computer Hardware, Springer-Verlag. Writing Word Macros, O'Reilly and Associates. Writing Visual Basic Add-Ins, O'Reilly and Associates. Writing Excel Macros with VBA, Second Edition, O'Reilly and Associates. Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic, O'Reilly and Associates. VB .NET Language in a Nutshell, O'Reilly and ...
Computer Lib/Dream Machines is a 1974 book by Ted Nelson, printed as a two-front-cover paperback to indicate its "intertwingled" nature.Originally self-published by Nelson, it was republished with a foreword by Stewart Brand in 1987 by Microsoft Press.
He noted that "very smart people" had to go down the "dead ends" of mechanical computers and decimal computing before reaching a scalable solution—namely, the electronic, binary computer with a von Neumann architecture. The book also covers more recent developments, including topics like floating point math, operating systems, and ASCII.
A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology. Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-9689108-0-7. Chposky, James; Leonsis, Ted (1988). Blue Magic: the people, power, and politics behind the IBM PC. Facts on File. Freiberger, Paul; Swaine, Michael (2000). Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill.
Donald Knuth - The Art of Computer Programming; Ellen Ullman - Close to the Machine; Ellis Horowitz - Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms; Eric Raymond - The Art of Unix Programming; Gerald M. Weinberg - The Psychology of Computer Programming; James Gosling - The Java Programming Language; Joel Spolsky - The Best Software Writing I
A personal computer, often referred to as a PC or simply computer, is a computer designed for individual use. [1] It is typically used for tasks such as word processing, internet browsing, email, multimedia playback, and gaming. Personal computers are intended to be operated directly by an end user, rather than by a computer expert or technician.
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation is a 1976 nonfiction book by German-American computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum in which he contends that while artificial intelligence may be possible, we should never allow computers to make important decisions, as they will always lack human qualities such as compassion and wisdom.
Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer is a coffee table book [1] [2] about the history of home computers and personal computers.It was written by Gordon Laing, a former editor of Personal Computer World magazine [1] and covers the period from 1975 to 1988 (the era before widespread adoption of PC compatibility).