COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS EVERY PROGRAMMER SHOULD KNOW.

Computers are monsters because they think different than us. The book provides a creative overview of the most useful coding concepts. You don’t need to be a math wizard to understand these ideas.

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?

Credits

Written by Kevin Focke

Surrealistic drawings and cover background by Darío Mekler

Monster drawings and cover cartoon by Thais Freire Sanchez