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> bad tech book writer You can't possibly mean his "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" or "The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour throug
by mcprwklzpq 8y ago
> bad tech book writer
You can't possibly mean his "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" or "The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic
Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine"? These books are great.
- pliftkl 8y agoThose books were both brilliant. I don't recall his tech books being "bad", at least in terms of being somehow worse the the other Windows programming books that several large publishing houses cranked in volume.
- IanPBann 8y agoI first came across Petzold this weekend while watching a talk by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin on the future of programming. Martin was discussing Turing's paper "On Computable Numbers" and recommended reading it and Petzold's "Annotated Turing". I currently have Petzold's book on my "to-buy" list so am glad to see it spoken of highly.
- Insanity 8y agoWell, I didn't hear about the book yet. But seeing as your coment and the parent suggest it, I'll add it to my to-read list as well. The Code book I've heard people speak highly off before but have not read it yet myself.