There's just so much good information in that that really builds on itself. I've read it multiple times, and when I first started reading it, I'd make it only part way through before I had to stop and start over from the beginning. " Code" is one of my favorite programming books ever (even though it doesn't really go into programming much). The 2nd edition of Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software falls into that second category. Perhaps the author had become dissatisfied with certain aspects of the 1st edition and wanted to fix them. But other times a 2nd edition involves some major upheavals. Sometimes a 2nd edition has mostly small changes: correcting a few mistakes, adding some more up-to-date information. Reading a 2nd edition after the 1st is not trivial: It’s a commitment of both additional money and additional time.
Do I need to get the 2nd?” It’s a legitimate question and I’ve asked it myself. No matter what your level of technical savvy, CODE will charm you-and perhaps even awaken the technophile within.Whenever a 2nd edition of a book is published, people ask “I already have the 1st edition. It's a cleverly illustrated and eminently comprehensible story-and along the way, you'll discover you've gained a real context for understanding today's world of PCs, digital media, and the Internet. Using everyday objects and familiar language systems such as Braille and Morse code, author Charles Petzold weaves an illuminating narrative for anyone who's ever wondered about the secret inner life of computers and other smart machines. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries. What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other.
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