Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd Edition

Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Contents
5. Preface to the Second Edition
   1. The Companion Website
   2. The People Responsible
   3. And Finally
6. Pearson’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
7. About the Author
8. Definition of Code
9. Chapter One. Best Friends
10. Chapter Two. Codes and Combinations
11. Chapter Three. Braille and Binary Codes
12. Chapter Four. Anatomy of a Flashlight
13. Chapter Five. Communicating Around Corners
14. Chapter Six. Logic with Switches
15. Chapter Seven. Telegraphs and Relays
16. Chapter Eight. Relays and Gates
17. Chapter Nine. Our Ten Digits
18. Chapter Ten. Alternative 10s
19. Chapter Eleven. Bit by Bit by Bit
20. Chapter Twelve. Bytes and Hexadecimal
21. Chapter Thirteen. From ASCII to Unicode
22. Chapter Fourteen. Adding with Logic Gates
23. Chapter Fifteen. Is This for Real?
24. Chapter Sixteen. But What About Subtraction?
25. Chapter Seventeen. Feedback and Flip-Flops
26. Chapter Eighteen. Let’s Build a Clock!
27. Chapter Nineteen. An Assemblage of Memory
28. Chapter Twenty. Automating Arithmetic
29. Chapter Twenty-One. The Arithmetic Logic Unit
30. Chapter Twenty-Two. Registers and Busses
31. Chapter Twenty-Three. CPU Control Signals
32. Chapter Twenty-Four. Loops, Jumps, and Calls
33. Chapter Twenty-Five. Peripherals
34. Chapter Twenty-Six. The Operating System
35. Chapter Twenty-Seven. Coding
36. Chapter Twenty-Eight. The World Brain
37. Index
38. Colophon
39. Code Snippets