What Computing Is All About (Monographs in Computer Science) by Jan L.A.van de Snepscheut (PDF)

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I have always been fascinated with engineering. From Roman bridges and jumbo jets to steam engines and CD players, it is the privilege of the en­ gineer to combine scientific insights and technical possibilities into useful and elegant products. Engineers get a great deal of satisfaction from the usefulness and beauty of their designs. Some of these designs have a major impact on our daily lives, others enable further scientific insights or shift limits of technology. The successful engineer is familiar with the scientific basis of the field and the technology of the components, and has an eye for the envisioned applications. For example, to build an airplane, one had better understand the physics of motion, the structural properties of alu­ minum, and the size of passengers. And the physics of motion requires a mastery of mathematics, in particular calculus. Computers are a marvel of modern engineering. They come in a wide variety and their range of applications seems endless. One of the charac­ teristics that makes computers different from other engineering products is their programmability. Dishwashers have some limited programming capa­ is not the key part of the device. Their essential part is some bility, but it enclosed space where the dishes are stored and flushed with hot water. Computers are embedded in many different environments, but in their case the programming capability is the essential part. All computers are programmed in more or less the same way.

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⭐In a world where a programming book that you bought last year is usually already out of date this year, this is a lovely scholarly book about true computing fundamentals that will still be as valid in ten, twenty, thirty years as it is today. There is no immediate, practical, work-related reason for you to buy this book. But if you truly love the core elegance of computing and programming, this book is a gem that is worth reading slowly, carefully, and many times over.

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