书籍介绍
Paperback Edition 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 illuminating narrative for anyone who s ever wondered about the secret inner life of computers and other smart machines. It s a cleverly illustrated and eminently comprehensible story and along the way, you ll discover you ve gained a real context for understanding today s world of PCs, digital media, and the Internet. No matter what your level of technical savvy, CODE will charm you and perhaps even awaken the technophile within.
用户评论
百分百外行的我觉得超级好看的一本书，已收入“我那不知道何时才会出世的娃成长过程中必读”系列
看不下去了
太糙，而且讲完二进制开关了竟然没有接下去讲电路一气呵成说怎么实现从数到物理的控制跳回去再说各种语言表达方式也是醉了 进入开关的章节也奇长都是高中物理，但讲的很糙。不认为好。
read it quickly and previous chapters are more interesting
计算机组织原理通俗易懂入门版。强烈推荐！
第一遍读的是中文版，寒假期间重读了英文版。这应该是第一本读完的英文专业书籍。读的过程中还是稍微有些困难的，其实专业书籍的英文不会很难，但和本就陌生的专业知识结合起来，读书的速度就明显很慢了。不过，总是要迈出第一步的。
书籍网站首页链接：
https://www.charlespetzold.com/code/
网站的Annotated Bibliography, Technical Addendum, Errata - Hardcover Edition, Ambiguities and Clarifications四部分还是很有价值的。
作者Charles Petzold的网站：
https://www.charlespetzold.com/home.html
好书，作者很用心用了半本书讲2进制，总体讲的很底层，对于我这种非计算机相关行业的，有点远
5星不是我的评分。我的评分是10星！之前读日本作家写的网络科普类数据，繁复的名词让人读的很累。用原语言读“原”原理，才是正解。一个不恰当的比喻，所谓原汤化原食也。身在互联网行业，现代社会最离不开的东西——电子产品和网络。这一本书就能让人明白什么是计算机、代码、网络。对事物的理解越准确，思想和行为就越有余裕。这本书给我加了一个计算机buff，对电子和网络世界有了基础的认识。所有耳熟能详但是却不懂意思的词突然变得可理解并知道其中的原理，TCP/IP 协议，HTML，JAVA，JPEG, MPEG, GIF, DVD, CD, HD, 分辨率，等等。不过中间部分的Logic and switches, gates, binary adding machine, 对一个完全没有基础的人太难了。
一气呵成
当睡前读物够格，谈不上引人入胜吧