D is for Digital: What a Well-Informed Person Should Know about Computers and Communications

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By Brian Kernighan *69

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(CreateSpace) In a user-friendly guide to computers, Kernighan makes computing understandable to non-programmers. Based on his popular Princeton class, Computers in Our World, the book explains topics such as the CPU, JavaScript, and data tracking. Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton.

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