![]() ![]() The main weakness of the book is that the first edition was printed in 2000. I think this ultimately makes the ascent into logic gates, hardware, and software more approachable. Instead, it starts in a context completed removed from computers. Unlike nand2tetris, though, Petzold doesn’t start from an engineering context. Like nand2tetris, Petzold starts with some questions about how one might capture information with binary codes. It won’t be a great computer, and there will be hiccups and tinkering along the way, but all of the basic ideas on how to build what we would recognize as a personal computer are there. What this book does is gives you feeling that, if you really wanted to, you could build a computer from scratch. It felt like a crash course in the great ideas that led to computers, but for people with little to no background in the field.Īnd amazingly, it does so without sacrificing too much technical rigor (in fact, I think Petzold is too heavy with the technicalities at time for a general reader). I wish I had found this book earlier during my computer science degree. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Some early reviews discuss its relevance to the advertising/publishing world. Yet, the Commission could justify the recommendation by pointing to a new book written by Facebook’s (FB) former product manager for advertising, Antonio García Martínez (AGM).ĪGM’s Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, is an outrageous, fantastic book. This no doubt, will attract controversy from the advertising Industry. The Federal Trade Commission staff recently recommended that Internet users use ad blockers to control online tracking. Here’s something you may not know: every time you go to Facebook or or wherever, you’re unleashing a mad scramble of money, data, and pixels that involves undersea fiber-optic cables, the world’s best database technologies, and everything that is known about you by greedy strangers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which is not to say that Chess is a solemn or offputting book. It was Zweig’s last work, written shortly before his suicide in 1942, and his hatred of the Nazis – he and his wife killed themselves in despair at the future of Europe – is well established and allegorized within these pages. ![]() And when the ever-reliable Penguin relaunched some classics with jazzy modern covers last year, in among the Gatsbys and the Sensibilitys and the Confederacys, was this slim and mysterious volume.Īt 76 pages, Chess is less a novella than a story, and its unbroken paragraphs and frankly gripping style encourage reading it at one sitting. His dinky little volumes are displayed in my local bookstore with unusual prominence for a dead early 20th century Austrian short story writer. His books earn Paperback of the Week status in newspaper reviews. Stefan Zweig is one of those names which has been tapping at my literary consciousness for a while now. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Terrified, searching for a place where he belongs, Donte joins a local youth center and meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones. When he's bullied and framed by the captain of the fencing team, "King" Alan, he's suspended from school and arrested for something he didn't do. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don't look like him. Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the other as black, and the complex ways in which they are forced to navigate the world, all while training for a fencing competition.įramed. ![]() |