DON'T LET THESE MONSTERS FOOL YOU! This is a challenging book to improve your in-depth understanding of computers.
Improve your programming versatility by learning the nuances of numbers & their representations. Not a math wizard? No problem!
We will learn:
- What the monsters look like.
- How you can prevent the 125 million dollar mistake that caused the NASA Climate Orbitor to crash, and how Tony Hoare made a billion dollar mistake.
- How do emojis, text, and everything else in your computer work by interpreting numbers differently?
- Where and how are numbers stored and accessed?
- How can we stop thinking about numbers by using abstraction?