Books like Computers
Loved Computers by H. L. Capron? Here are 6 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Computers: Tools for an Information Age →6 books
- 1Code
Code
Charles PetzoldIt builds up from simple ideas to explain how computer hardware and software work, for readers with no technical training.
- 2Hackers
Hackers
Steven LevyIt tells the early history of personal computing and the people who built it, showing how computers became tools for ordinary people.
- 3The Innovators
The Innovators
Walter IsaacsonIt follows the people and inventions behind computing and the internet across several decades in a clear narrative.
- 4The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy KidderIt follows a team building a new computer, showing what hardware development involved in practice.
Books like it → - 5The Victorian Internet
The Victorian Internet
Tom StandageIt compares the telegraph with the internet, a useful way for beginners to think about how information networks change society.
- 6The Dream Machine
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell WaldropIt describes the early ideas about interactive computing and how they grew into the personal computer.
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