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Tiny C Projects
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Tiny C Projects

by Dan Gookin
December 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
384 pages
10h 44m
English
Manning Publications
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In the beginning was Morse code, a simple method of translating electrical pulses—long and short—into a string of characters and readable text. Morse wasn’t the first electronic encoding method, but it’s perhaps the best known. Developed in 1840, it’s named after Samuel Morse, who helped invent the telegraph and who also bears an uncanny resemblance to Lost in Space’s Dr. Smith.

Some 30 years after Morse code came the Baudot code. Also used in telegraph communications, Baudot (baw-DOH) represents letters of the alphabet using a 5-bit sequence. This code was later modified into Murray code for use on teletype machines with keyboards, as well as early computers. Then came IBM’s Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) for use on ...

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