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Charles Petzold
Born
in New Brunswick, NJ, The United States
February 02, 1953
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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1999
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33 editions
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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
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2008
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13 editions
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Programming Windows
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published
1998
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11 editions
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Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Cross-Platform C# Programming for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone
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2014
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6 editions
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Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft® Windows® Presentation Foundation: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation
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1899
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6 editions
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Programming Microsoft Windows with C#
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published
2001
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8 editions
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Programming Windows 95 (Microsoft Programming Series)
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published
1995
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2 editions
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Programming in the Key of C#: A Primer for Aspiring Programmers
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2003
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2 editions
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Programming Windows Phone 7
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2010
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3D Programming for Windows
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2007
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7 editions
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“Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.”
― Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
― Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
“Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick.”
― Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
― Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
“In 1948, while working for Bell Telephone Laboratories, he published a paper in the Bell System Technical Journal entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" that not only introduced the word bit in print but established a field of study today known as information theory. Information theory is concerned with transmitting digital information in the presence of noise (which usually prevents all the information from getting through) and how to compensate for that. In 1949, he wrote the first article about programming a computer to play chess, and in 1952 he designed a mechanical mouse controlled by relays that could learn its way around a maze. Shannon was also well known at Bell Labs for riding a unicycle and juggling simultaneously.”
― Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
― Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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