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The sample chapter seems too simplistic so I'm not sure my daughter would find it interesting, but I'm curious - do you know any teenagers who liked it?
by lovemath 13y ago
The sample chapter seems too simplistic so I'm not sure my daughter would find it interesting, but I'm curious - do you know any teenagers who liked it?
- dkuntz2 13y agoIt's not simplistic at all. I'm currently a junior in college, and I read this last year by suggestion of another student who said it was an excellent precursor to our college's Computer Organization course (haven't taken it yet, so I don't know). It was also one of the books given to one of the CS department's Outstanding Seniors last year. The beginning is a little slow if you know some physics, but it picks up and gets really interesting.
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoYes. It's not simplistic at all. It's easy to understand, but it goes fairly in depth as to the internals of computing. It has a very incremental approach. It starts with Morse code, Braille, numbering systems, moves on to logic gates, Boolean logic until it reaches microprocessors, character encoding, operating systems and finally some notes on high-level languages. It's renowned as a classic anywhere you go. Very entertaining, too. It has a casual writing style.
- lovemath 13y agoPerhaps simplistic is the wrong word. To me the sample chapter[1] doesn't seem like it would be very engaging for my daughter since she's only perhiperally interested in things that lead to computing. But thanks for the recommendation and I'll take a closer look if I see it on the shelf. [1] http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/4677.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/4677.aspx