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Usborne guide to computer jargon illustrated
Book by Stockley, Corinne, Watts, Lisa
48 pages, Unknown Binding
First published December 1, 1983
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April 17, 2020
Everything You Need to Know (From the 80s)
16 April 2020
Just before I started this year I was tempted to take a photo of this book, and a few others that I have in my collection, and post it onto Facebook saying that I had got my textbooks for the year. I ended up not doing it because, well, it’s Facebook, and I’m just so over stroking my ego by trying to garner as many likes as possible, but that’s another story for another day.
Anyway, I decided to read this book, as a break from all of the CoVid-19 related books that I have been reading of late, such as The Plague (which I’ve noticed that an awful lot of people on Goodreads have been reading this book as well), and also because I wanted to clean off my little table that I sort of stacked with so many books that it is impossible to find a place to put my cup of tea in the morning, as well as other things.
Anyway, as I was reading through this book I was somewhat surprised at the number of things that they covered that we were taught in first year. Yeah, stuff like Boolean algebra and all of that. Mind you, this book is pretty dated, yet it is fascinating to see the number of things that are still taught in our universities that were in kids books back when I was young. Mind you, our course was a little bit more in depth than what this book covered, but they did have a decent sized chapter on binary numbers, and the two methods of how computers determine negative numbers (such as the Two’s Complements method).
It sort of makes me wonder whether there is the Usborne Guide to Machine Learning, or the Usborne Guide to deploying apps into Google Cloud. Mind you, I wouldn’t be all that surprised, considering that my Machine Learning course has less to do with writing Machine Learning algorithms and more about analysing which is the best algorithm to use for the problem that we are facing (and before you jump up with excitement, no, Machine Learning can’t accurately predict stock price movements).
I would also mention the Usborne guide to writing in Python, but from what I understand, Python is the programming language that kids are learning to write in these days. I guess that is why I don’t actually like the language, though there are other factors as well, such as that it really isn’t all that good for object-orientated programming, and the security, at least in my mind, is pretty bad. Yeah, it seems as if you have to go to extraordinary lengths to actually hide the code (though deploying it into Google Cloud seems to be one possibility).
Anyway, as I mentioned, this book is pretty dated, especially since Dot Matrix and Spool printers seriously don’t exist anymore. Mind you, they did talk about machine code, which while we aren’t taught that in our course, other people that I have spoken to have had to write programs using that language. As for me, I prefer C++, even if it is only because it makes me actually feel like a proper computer programmer as opposed to a code monkey.
16 April 2020
Just before I started this year I was tempted to take a photo of this book, and a few others that I have in my collection, and post it onto Facebook saying that I had got my textbooks for the year. I ended up not doing it because, well, it’s Facebook, and I’m just so over stroking my ego by trying to garner as many likes as possible, but that’s another story for another day.
Anyway, I decided to read this book, as a break from all of the CoVid-19 related books that I have been reading of late, such as The Plague (which I’ve noticed that an awful lot of people on Goodreads have been reading this book as well), and also because I wanted to clean off my little table that I sort of stacked with so many books that it is impossible to find a place to put my cup of tea in the morning, as well as other things.
Anyway, as I was reading through this book I was somewhat surprised at the number of things that they covered that we were taught in first year. Yeah, stuff like Boolean algebra and all of that. Mind you, this book is pretty dated, yet it is fascinating to see the number of things that are still taught in our universities that were in kids books back when I was young. Mind you, our course was a little bit more in depth than what this book covered, but they did have a decent sized chapter on binary numbers, and the two methods of how computers determine negative numbers (such as the Two’s Complements method).
It sort of makes me wonder whether there is the Usborne Guide to Machine Learning, or the Usborne Guide to deploying apps into Google Cloud. Mind you, I wouldn’t be all that surprised, considering that my Machine Learning course has less to do with writing Machine Learning algorithms and more about analysing which is the best algorithm to use for the problem that we are facing (and before you jump up with excitement, no, Machine Learning can’t accurately predict stock price movements).
I would also mention the Usborne guide to writing in Python, but from what I understand, Python is the programming language that kids are learning to write in these days. I guess that is why I don’t actually like the language, though there are other factors as well, such as that it really isn’t all that good for object-orientated programming, and the security, at least in my mind, is pretty bad. Yeah, it seems as if you have to go to extraordinary lengths to actually hide the code (though deploying it into Google Cloud seems to be one possibility).
Anyway, as I mentioned, this book is pretty dated, especially since Dot Matrix and Spool printers seriously don’t exist anymore. Mind you, they did talk about machine code, which while we aren’t taught that in our course, other people that I have spoken to have had to write programs using that language. As for me, I prefer C++, even if it is only because it makes me actually feel like a proper computer programmer as opposed to a code monkey.
July 26, 2019
Borrowed it from the library.
Got me initially interested in computers.
Got me initially interested in computers.
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