Would you like to understand computers better?

[andrewducker]

You may have noticed that you're surrounded by computers

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[fanf]

There's also D is for Digital by Brian Kernighan. It's used at Princeton for an intro to CS course aimed at arts students.

[franklanguage]

Ha! I was just going to comment on how my first computer book was The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie!

(It's kind of remarkable I stayed with it at all; that book made me want to tear my hair out by the roots!)

[rhythmaning]

I started off reading this post thinking "nah, not really" - although not enough not to read the post! - but that first book sounds really interesting! Thanks for suggesting it!

[andrewducker]

Glad you're tempted.

Let me know what you thought - it's hard for me to judge introductory books well.

[gonzo21]

To an entirely uninitiated person like me, it is akin to magic.

[andrewducker]

Which is an excellent reason to educate yourself!

[kalimac]

Thanks, I'll take note of these. (Although your first sentence tempts me to print out my feed before reading it, just to disprove this.) I wonder if I'd understand the second. I know what a NAND operator is, but how you build something like Tetris out of such basic principles is beyond me. So presumably this covers what I'd want to know.

[andrewducker]

The first one will do a good job of explaining the general principles.

The second one really need some coding knowledge to work through it fully, so I'd leave that unless you finish the first one and really want more.