Paperback Edition What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries. Using ...
Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine. This book presents the secrets of the extraordinary and prescient 1936 paper by Alan. It also elaborates on many of Turing's statements, making the original difficult-to-read document accessible to programmers, computer science majors, math geeks, and others.
Get a focused introduction to programming 3D graphics with the Windows Presentation Foundation 3D API. Complementing his book Applications = Code + Markup, award-winning author Charles Petzold builds on XAML essentials, teaching you how to display and animate 3D graphics under the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and Windows Vista. You ll get expert guidance and code samples in XAML and Microsoft ...