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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

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Gifts for Programmers?
What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries.Using everyday objects and familiar language systems such as Braille and Morse code, author Charles Petzold weaves an illuminat…

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Gifts for Programmers?(r/books)

Just a few ideas…

  • Nerdy stuff from ThinkGeek.
  • A Raspberry Pi kit, if you think he’d be into tinkering with hardware.
  • It’s probably going to be more than $70, but a nice mechanical keyboard is a great gift. Das Keyboard, Code, and Logitech G710+ are safe choices.
  • Book-wise, consider Code. It’s a classic for every programmer to read.

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$20.9

Book Binding

Paperback

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ABIS_BOOK

Book Author

Charles Petzold

Book Edition

2nd Printing

Book Publisher

Microsoft Press

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

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