But How Do It Know
Subtitle: The Basic Principles of Computers For Everyone
Publisher: J. Clark Scott
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Format: PDF;E-Book
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780615303765
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents
pagenum: iii; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: Just the Facts Ma'am
pagenum: 3; title: Speed
pagenum: 6; title: Language
pagenum: 9; title: Just a Little Bit
pagenum: 10; title: What the ...?
pagenum: 13; title: Simple Variations
pagenum: 18; title: Diagrams
pagenum: 22; title: Remember When
pagenum: 24; title: What Can We Do With a Bit?
pagenum: 28; title: A Rose by Any Other Name
pagenum: 32; title: Eight Is Enough
pagenum: 34; title: Codes
pagenum: 36; title: Back to the Byte
pagenum: 40; title: The Magic Bus
pagenum: 42; title: More Gate Combinations
pagenum: 46; title: First Half of the Computer
pagenum: 50; title: Numbers
pagenum: 57; title: Addresses
pagenum: 66; title: The Other Half of the Computer
pagenum: 67; title: More Gates
pagenum: 69; title: Messing with Bytes
pagenum: 72; title: The Left and Right Shifters
pagenum: 73; title: The NOTter
pagenum: 75; title: The ANDer
pagenum: 76; title: The ORer
pagenum: 77; title: The Exclusive ORer
pagenum: 78; title: The Adder
pagenum: 79; title: The Comparator and Zero
pagenum: 82; title: Logic
pagenum: 85; title: The Arithmetic and Logic Unit
pagenum: 87; title: More of the Processor
pagenum: 90; title: The Clock
pagenum: 93; title: Doing Something Useful
pagenum: 98; title: Step by Step
pagenum: 99; title: Everything's Under Control
pagenum: 103; title: Doing Something Useful, Revisited
pagenum: 105; title: What's Next?
pagenum: 108; title: The First Great Invention
pagenum: 110; title: Instructions
pagenum: 115; title: The Arithmetic or Logic Instruction
pagenum: 117; title: The Load and Store Instructions
pagenum: 123; title: The Data Instruction
pagenum: 126; title: The Second Great Invention
pagenum: 128; title: Another Way to Jump
pagenum: 130; title: The Third Great Invention
pagenum: 132; title: The Clear Flags Instruction
pagenum: 137; title: Ta Daa!
pagenum: 139; title: A Few More Words on Arithmetic
pagenum: 141; title: The Outside World
pagenum: 146; title: The Keyboard
pagenum: 150; title: The Display Screen
pagenum: 152; title: Another Code
pagenum: 158; title: The Final Word on Codes
pagenum: 161; title: The Disk
pagenum: 163; title: Excuse Me Ma'am
pagenum: 167; title: That's All Folks
pagenum: 169; title: Hardware and Software
pagenum: 171; title: Programs
pagenum: 174; title: The Operating System
pagenum: 175; title: Languages
pagenum: 179; title: The File System
pagenum: 182; title: Errors
pagenum: 184; title: Computer Diseases?
pagenum: 188; title: Firmware
pagenum: 191; title: Boots
pagenum: 194; title: Digital vs. Analog
pagenum: 196; title: I Lied - Sort of
pagenum: 200; title: Full Disclosure
pagenum: 204; title: Philosophy
pagenum: 206