Table of Contents
Part 1: What Makes a Computer a Computer
Chapter 1. The Ghostly LEGOs of Computing
How Waves Take the Universe on a Joy Ride
How Information Rides the Waves
How Electromagnetism Is the Ghost in the Machine
How Computers Create Our World Using Numbers
Chapter 2. How Computers Remember
How a Little Transistor Does Big Jobs
How Flash Memory Remembers When the Switch is Off
Chapter 3. How a Little Microprocessor Does Big Things
How a Processor Tracks Numbers
How Multi-Core Processors Work
How Desktop CPUs Keep It Complex
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