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The Secret Guide to Computers is a book on computer hardware and software techniques by Russ Walter. [1] The book was written to be useful in both teaching and professional environments. [2] Its goal is to describe everything necessary to become a "computer expert," covering philosophies, technicalities, hardware, software, theory, and practice ...
The book also covers more recent developments, including topics like floating point math, operating systems, and ASCII. The book focuses on "pre-networked computers" and does not cover concepts like distributed computing because Petzold thought that it would not be as useful for "most people using the Internet", his intended audience. [ 4 ]
The Way Things Work is a 1988 nonfiction book by David Macaulay with technical text by Neil Ardley. It is a whimsical introduction to everyday machines and the scientific principles behind their operation, describing machines as simple as levers and gears and as complicated as radio telescopes and automatic transmissions. Every page consists ...
The Digital Hand, Vol.2: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment Industries. Oxford. Cortada, James W. (2007). The Digital Hand, Vol 3: How Computers Changed the Work of American Public Sector Industries. Oxford. Crevier, Daniel (1994).
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
I work at a well known Australian alcohol store, up until very recently the online store would mark down slabs (24 bottles/cans) of several different craft beers from $60-$70 down to $24.
This is a project to replace modern book covers used to illustrate articles about books in the public domain. These images are not really acceptable under the "replaceable" clause of our fair use policy , [ 1 ] since the books' original covers, title pages, etc. would be free.
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software; Communications, Computers, and Networks; The Computer and the Brain; Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice; Computer: A History of the Information Machine; Computers and Typesetting