Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Post XXI. What Is Code?

The computer is an integral part of everyone’s life nowadays. Still, not so many people understand how this powerful machine actually works. Since getting my first computer in the middle 1990s and starting browsing the Internet, I was wondering what kind of mechanisms make this magic happen.
During my undergraduate studies, I took several basic programming courses, but never received the answer to the question above. Those courses discussed lots of technical terms related to the computer sciences, and I even remembered some of them; however, nobody cared to explain the working process of the computer so I would be able to get it.
Last weeks, I was searching for coding-related learning materials for my soon-to-start IDT career in Kazakhstan. And I was lucky to find an amazing interactive manual that is written for people who are not very familiar with coding, but willing to understand it. That is to say, I found the coding book of my dream, and it is called What Is Code? While interacting with the book, I experienced lots of “aha moments” that never came to my head before.
What Is Code? is a real treasure for anyone interested in the topic of coding. If you are not one of them, you still may find it to be interesting to go to see how this interactive web-based learning tool works. I promise, you will be impressed.

Here is a short video from the introduction to What Is Code?


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