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Summary: The most UNIQUE and best computer book I've read.
Review: This was one of those books that I overlooked on the shelves several times. Who would want to pickup a book like this squashed inbetween some stuff that might actually get me some inside scoop on how to design this or program that. But one day I looked at this book and just for curiosities sake decided to take a look inside of it. What I found surprised me. Unlike most computer books, this one grasped me right from the first page! You must agree when I say the typical computer book is difficult to read, often boring, and lacks any non-abstract visualization. However, the author is very fluid in style of writing. I don't think I ever had to turn back a page to reread anything. And there are almost as many diagrams as pages; each of them CLEARLY describing what is going on. The book itself is also very interesting. The first few chapters mention little about a computer itself but by the time your done with them, you realize you have the potential of starting to realize how a computer actually works at the lowest level possible. Then the book starts to gain momentum and the author goes on to switches then gates then memory then computer systems on a whole. Throughout the chapters though he leaves no gaps. How does he do this? Well he primarly moves the text in such a fashion that he kind of asks the question, "well what if we wanted to do this?" again and again. So your knowledge always builds on your past knowledge.All in all this was a very good book. I would recommend this is a good and easy read for the advanced computer user to the complete beginner.
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Summary: CODE: Simply the greatest book on the face of the earth!
Review: Yes, that's right! CODE is the greatest book on the face of the earth!
Why? Here's my story, and go judge for yourself.
I'm using computers for around four years. My question was always "How is this thing doing it's stuff?". Although I have no idea how other electronic stuff work, the computer did bothered me more then anything else because the computer seems to do some kind of THINKING, that's why it triggered my THINKING. This question kept on staying in my head until two weeks ago. It really bothered me. All along this four years I was looking for an answer to my question. I bought books, went to the library a thousand times, but nothing helped me. I learned a few programming languages along my journey, but it did not clarify how it really works. So I decided to learn Assembly Language because I taught that that's where I'm going to find the answer to my question. I must admit that it did helped me out quite a bit, but not to the extent I expected. I used a great book called "Assembly Language Step-by-Step" by Jeff Duntemann, which is a great book, but since the subject of the book is not to teach you how computers work, it didn't helped me enough to satisfy my desire for the answer to my question. I contacted Jeff Duntemann, the author of the book and I told him my problem. He referred me to this book CODE. So I rushed and bought this book. The rest of the story is self-understood, the book made my day and my life. And that's why I'm restating "This is the greatest book on the face of the earth".
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