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  2. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

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    ISBN. 978-0735605053. Website. www .charlespetzold .com /code. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (1999) is a book by Charles Petzold that seeks to teach how personal computers work at a hardware and software level. In the preface to the 2000 softcover edition, Petzold wrote that his goal was for readers to understand ...

  3. Charles Petzold - Wikipedia

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    This experience of digital circuitry and assembly language programming formed the basis of his book Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. Petzold purchased a two-diskette IBM PC in 1984 for $5,000. [3] This debt encouraged him to use the PC to earn some revenue so he wrote an article about ANSI.SYS and the PROMPT command.

  4. The Annotated Turing - Wikipedia

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    The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine is a book by Charles Petzold, published in 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [1] [2] Petzold annotates Alan Turing 's paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem ". The book takes readers sentence by ...

  5. Why a disembodied finger can't be used to unlock the Touch ID ...

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    This means that the Touch ID sensor should be remarkably accurate for living creatures, but it also means that only a finger attached to a beating heart will be able to unlock it. So, should ...

  6. Windows API - Wikipedia

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    Charles Petzold, who wrote several books about programming for the Windows API, said: "The original hello world program in the Windows 1.0 SDK was a bit of a scandal. HELLO.C was about 150 lines long, and the HELLO.RC resource script had another 20 or so more lines.

  7. Please don't learn to code | TechCrunch

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    There’s an idea that’s been gaining ground in the tech community lately: Everyone should learn to code. But here’s the problem with that idea: Coding is not the new literacy. If you ...

  8. Jeff Prosise - Wikipedia

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    Jeff Prosise is the author of the book Programming Windows with MFC, published by Microsoft Press. His book is about the MFC, a C++ based proprietary programming library for Microsoft Windows. This book, along with Charles Petzold 's popular Programming Windows book are considered to be 'bibles' in Windows programming.

  9. Portable Executable - Wikipedia

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    COFF. The Portable Executable ( PE) format is a file format for executables, object code, DLLs and others used in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems, and in UEFI environments. [ 2] The PE format is a data structure that encapsulates the information necessary for the Windows OS loader to manage the wrapped executable code.