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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Overview and foundational concepts from Charles Petzold's classic book on how simple physical states build up to complex computing systems.
Computer Science
Code — Chapter 1: Best Friends
How flashlights, Morse code, encoding, and decoding demonstrate that meaning lives in agreed systems, not physical media.
Computer Science
Code — Chapter 2: Codes and Combinations
Exploring Braille, mathematical combinations (2ⁿ), and how two-state systems scale to represent complex information.