Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing, by Martin Erwig

John Gilbey praises an entertaining text that draws on popular culture to explain the essentials of computer science to the general reader

Published on
September 21, 2017
Last updated
September 21, 2017
Dorothy in computer Oz
Source: Alamy montage
Smarter than you think: musical notation is used as an example of representational language, to dispel the mystique of code

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