A mixed bag, but overall, worth reading. Pros: I think programmers do not spend enough time studying the code of others, so books like this are an important step in encouraging the study of this craft. Each chapter of the book is written by a different (often famous) programmer, uses a different lan...
This book takes you on a historical trip through the evolution that lead to the personal computer. from morse code and Braille, to 1s and 0s, to teletype, to bits and bytes, to assembly language to graphics... It does get quite technical at a point, involving electronics (and a lot of it). Although ...
There are some great essays here and some long and winding, less interesting, essays here. I read them out of order and sporadically and enjoyed the book, but there was a part of me that was disappointed. Perhaps there's no way to avoid too high of expectations with a title like this. But overall...
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