Code. Hidden language of computer hardware and software

This is an extraordinary book in the field of computer science and computer technology. It covers a wide range of topics - from the transmission of information signals and the elementary way of communicating using code characters to create complex computational systems using integrated circuits with a high degree of integration.
The author describes the main electronic circuits of the computer: combinational circuits, arithmetic circuits, meters, memories and mains, and explains how to build a processor from these elements. In the architecture of the processor, it clearly distinguishes the operating and controlling parts. He discusses the concept of the program. Using examples of programs in assembler, he introduces the reader to the issues of programming in a low-level language. He deals with the operating system, compilers and interpreters, low and high level languages. It discusses object-oriented software, graphic programming languages, image processing and transmission, as well as sounds, data compression systems and programming languages independent of hardware. By addressing these topics, he explains what new methods of human communication are. He explains what the system of information exchange between people and machines means.
The book is written very colorfully and accessible. Reading her will give pleasure to a wide range of readers. This book will be used by students who will differently perceive the reality described in the professional literature, as well as specialists for whom reading it will be a real intellectual adventure.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Best friends
Chapter 2. Codes and combinations
Chapter 3. Braille and binary codes
Chapter 4. Anatomy of the flashlight
Chapter 5. Can you see around the corner?
Chapter 6. Telegraphs and relays
Chapter 7. Our ten numbers
Chapter 8. The alternative of ten
Chapter 9. Bits "bit by bit"
Chapter 10. Log and connectors
Chapter 11. Frames
Chapter 12. Binary totalising machine
Chapter 13. What about subtraction?
Chapter 14. Back pressure and flip-flops
Chapter 15. Bajty and sixteenth
Chapter 16. Building of memory
Chapter 17. Automation
Chapter 18. From the abacus to the microchips
Chapter 19 Two classic microprocessors
Chapter 20. SECRET and character coding
Chapter 21. Traveling by bus
Chapter 22. Operating system
Chapter 23. Fixed position, variable position
Chapter 24. High and low level languages
Chapter 25. Graphic evolution

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Index