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The cartoon guide to computer science

 
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A fun and easy way to learn about computers!
"The Cartoon Guide to the Computer" by Larry Gonick is another of his informative cartoons about different subjects. This book was originally titled "The Cartoon Guide to Computer Science", and was published in 1983. So much has happened in the world of computers since 1983, that this book has become very dated. This book still works as a history of Computers, but the parts of the book which focus more on the current state of computers is no longer relevant, nor was it when the book was published again in 1991 by HarperPerennial.
The areas that are well done include the history of the subject and related subjects, the overview of how computers work, the sections on logic and binary numbers.
The text includes some humor, and some history. But it clearly explains the basics of information theory, and logical operations.



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