I just received the new Petzold book....
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Code - the hidden language of Computer Hardware and Software. Just delivered 5 minutes ago. I am looking forward to reading this. I first learned Windows programming from his book for Windows 3.0, so many years ago. I am looking forward to reading about his thoughts 35+ years later...
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Code - the hidden language of Computer Hardware and Software. Just delivered 5 minutes ago. I am looking forward to reading this. I first learned Windows programming from his book for Windows 3.0, so many years ago. I am looking forward to reading about his thoughts 35+ years later...
Yep, These [interactive illustrations ](https://www.codehiddenlanguage.com/) are supposed to be part of the online reading experience.
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Code - the hidden language of Computer Hardware and Software. Just delivered 5 minutes ago. I am looking forward to reading this. I first learned Windows programming from his book for Windows 3.0, so many years ago. I am looking forward to reading about his thoughts 35+ years later...
Excellent. I have a copy of the earlier edition. Very informative for we of a certain disposition.
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Code - the hidden language of Computer Hardware and Software. Just delivered 5 minutes ago. I am looking forward to reading this. I first learned Windows programming from his book for Windows 3.0, so many years ago. I am looking forward to reading about his thoughts 35+ years later...
I started my computing life as a mainframe operator on one of the Leo Computers Society. Leo 3 photos[^] (first four pictures, second row). I learned programming in machine code and had to key in the instructions one by one on the mainframe's front panel. That was an invaluable lesson in the internals of computers, some of which I can still remember. I also learned to program on the ICT 1004 which used a removable plugboard as the program. Again an invaluable lesson in logic. It seems that many new developers these days are missing that essential knowledge and start by writing (or copying) code without much understanding of what goes on underneath.
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I started my computing life as a mainframe operator on one of the Leo Computers Society. Leo 3 photos[^] (first four pictures, second row). I learned programming in machine code and had to key in the instructions one by one on the mainframe's front panel. That was an invaluable lesson in the internals of computers, some of which I can still remember. I also learned to program on the ICT 1004 which used a removable plugboard as the program. Again an invaluable lesson in logic. It seems that many new developers these days are missing that essential knowledge and start by writing (or copying) code without much understanding of what goes on underneath.
I was fortunate that in junior high school I had access to an 1802 board. Also switches to enter instructions, very limited I/O (two LED characters). But totally fascinating to play with. Later in had a TRS-80 computer, and quickly went from Basic to Assembler. In the 80s I worked for a company manufacturing EGA/VGA chips, and we had special access to some MS pre-release software so we could develop drivers. One day we got this big box of disks for a very early pre-release of Windows 3.0, and it came with Petzold's book. It was my first introduction to him and developing for Windows....
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Code - the hidden language of Computer Hardware and Software. Just delivered 5 minutes ago. I am looking forward to reading this. I first learned Windows programming from his book for Windows 3.0, so many years ago. I am looking forward to reading about his thoughts 35+ years later...
I have this book too. it is good one...
diligent hands rule....
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Code - the hidden language of Computer Hardware and Software. Just delivered 5 minutes ago. I am looking forward to reading this. I first learned Windows programming from his book for Windows 3.0, so many years ago. I am looking forward to reading about his thoughts 35+ years later...
you do know the book was published in 1999 ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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you do know the book was published in 1999 ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
This is the updated 2nd edition...