Here's a book I really enjoyed. "But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone." It's a surprisingly accessible, plain-English explana

Here's a book I really enjoyed. "But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone." It's a surprisingly accessible, plain-English explanation of... logic gates. Exactly how it is that so many programming tricks are derived from simple binary numbers. At some point it occurred to me that specific functions exist in programming languages solely because they map onto things that can be easily accomplished with the underlying circuitry...