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978-0735605053. Website. www.charlespetzold.com /code. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (1999) is a book by Charles Petzold that seeks to teach how personal computers work at a hardware and software level. In the preface to the 2000 softcover edition, Petzold wrote that his goal was for readers to understand how ...
Charles Petzold (born February 2, 1953) is an American programmer and technical author on Microsoft Windows applications. ... Contributor to Beautiful Code: ...
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine is a book by Charles Petzold, published in 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [1][2] Petzold annotates Alan Turing 's paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem ". The book takes readers sentence by ...
Charles Petzold, who wrote several books about programming for the Windows API, said: "The original hello world program in the Windows 1.0 SDK was a bit of a scandal. HELLO.C was about 150 lines long, and the HELLO.RC resource script had another 20 or so more lines.
The original Hungarian notation was invented by Charles Simonyi, a programmer who worked at Xerox PARC circa 1972–1981, and who later became Chief Architect at Microsoft. The name of the notation is a reference to Simonyi's nation of origin, and also, according to Andy Hertzfeld , because it made programs "look like they were written in some ...
Hack computer. The Hack Computer is a theoretical computer design created by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken and described in their book, The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles.[1] In using the term “modern”, the authors refer to a digital, binary machine that is patterned according to the von ...
Charles Petzold – authored many Microsoft Windows programming books Simon Peyton Jones – functional programming , Glasgow Haskell Compiler , C-- Rob Pike – wrote first bitmapped window system for Unix, cocreated UTF-8 character encoding, authored text editor sam and programming environment acme , main author of Plan 9 and Inferno ...
Direct2D is a native code API based on C++ that can be called by managed code and uses a "lightweight COM " approach [5] just like Direct3D, with minimal amount of abstraction. However, unlike WPF and similarly to GDI/GDI+, Direct2D is an "immediate mode" rendering API with simple BeginDraw/Draw/EndDraw calls; Direct2D has no concept of a ...