Code : The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.
- 2nd ed.
- 1 online resource (519 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- The Companion Website -- The People Responsible -- And Finally -- Pearson's Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion -- About the Author -- Definition of Code -- Chapter One. Best Friends -- Chapter Two. Codes and Combinations -- Chapter Three. Braille and Binary Codes -- Chapter Four. Anatomy of a Flashlight -- Chapter Five. Communicating Around Corners -- Chapter Six. Logic with Switches -- Chapter Seven. Telegraphs and Relays -- Chapter Eight. Relays and Gates -- Chapter Nine. Our Ten Digits -- Chapter Ten. Alternative 10s -- Chapter Eleven. Bit by Bit by Bit -- Chapter Twelve. Bytes and Hexadecimal -- Chapter Thirteen. From ASCII to Unicode -- Chapter Fourteen. Adding with Logic Gates -- Chapter Fifteen. Is This for Real? -- Chapter Sixteen. But What About Subtraction? -- Chapter Seventeen. Feedback and Flip-Flops -- Chapter Eighteen. Let's Build a Clock! -- Chapter Nineteen. An Assemblage of Memory -- Chapter Twenty. Automating Arithmetic -- Chapter Twenty-One. The Arithmetic Logic Unit -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Registers and Busses -- Chapter Twenty-Three. CPU Control Signals -- Chapter Twenty-Four. Loops, Jumps, and Calls -- Chapter Twenty-Five. Peripherals -- Chapter Twenty-Six. The Operating System -- Chapter Twenty-Seven. Coding -- Chapter Twenty-Eight. The World Brain -- Index -- Colophon -- Code Snippets.