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to my agent, Claudette Moore of Moore Literary Agency, and to everyone at Microsoft Press who helped make Code a reality, particularly those whose names are listed on the copyright page of this book and on the colophon, following the index;
to my mother, who never held me back;
to Little Cat, who shared my apartment with me from 1982 through May 1999, and who inspired many cat references in my writing;
to Web sites such as Bibliofind (www.bibliofind.com) and Advanced Book Exchange (www.abebooks.com) that offer convenient access to used books, and to the staff of the Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL) branch of the New York Public Library (www.nypl.org);
to my friends in the rooms, without whose support none of this would be possible;
and again to Deirdre, my ideal reader and so much more.
Charles Petzold
July 15, 1999
Appendix B. Bibliography
An annotated bibliography for this book is available on the World Wide Web site www.charlespetzold.com/code.
About the Author
Charles Petzold wrote the classic Programming Windows®, which is currently in its fifth edition and one of the best-known and widely used programming books of all time. He was honored in 1994 with the Windows Pioneer Award, presented by Microsoft® founder Bill Gates and Windows Magazine. He has been programming with Windows since first obtaining a beta Windows 1.0 SDK in the spring of 1985, and he wrote the very first magazine article on Windows programming in 1986. Charles is an MVP for Client Application Development and the author of several other books including Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.
Colophon
The manuscript for this book was prepared using Microsoft Word 2000. Pages were composed using Adobe PageMaker 6.52, with text and display type in Sabon and math fonts in Syntax. Composed pages were delivered to the printer as electronic prepress files.
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Table of Contents
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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Preface to the Paperback Edition
1. Best Friends
2. Codes and Combinations
3. Braille and Binary Codes
4. Anatomy of a Flashlight
5. Seeing Around Corners
6. Telegraphs and Relays
7. Our Ten Digits
8. Alternatives to Ten
9. Bit by Bit by Bit
10. Logic and Switches
11. Gates (Not Bill)
12. A Binary Adding Machine
13. But What About Subtraction?
14. Feedback and Flip-Flops
15. Bytes and Hex
16. An Assemblage of Memory
17. Automation
18. From Abaci to Chips
19. Two Classic Microprocessors
20. ASCII and a Cast of Characters
21. Get on the Bus
22. The Operating System
23. Fixed Point, Floating Point
24. Languages High and Low
25. The Graphical Revolution
A. Acknowledgments
B. Bibliography
About the Author
Colophon
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