Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Introduction to Computer Programs and Computer Programming
Chapter 1: Introduction to Computer Programs
A brief history of computing4
A brief history of programming6
What is a program?7
How does a computer program work?11
Understanding the binary system12
Understanding ASCII and Unicode15
Representing other forms of data16
Boolean algebra17
Machine code – the native language of the computer19
Example machine code20
Summary21
Chapter 2: Introduction to Programming Languages
Why do we have programming languages?24
How programming languages have evolved?27
The modern era of programming languages28
Why so many languages?29
The family tree of programming languages29
Translating code into something that the computer ...
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