Thoughts on reading "The World is digital"

When I was immersed in the book "I Am a little bird of IT ", the teacher recommended a book-"The World is Digital", which made me a little unprepared, but when I began to read "The World is digital", I was attracted by the author's text. So here we must first introduce the author:

Brian W. Kernighan, the world's leading computer scientist, was a senior researcher at the Bell Labs Computing Science Center, currently a professor at Princeton University. He is the inventor of the AWK language and the AMPL language, and has been involved in the development of UNIX and many other systems, while publishing the C Programming Language,thepractice of programming,theElements of programming Style has far-reaching writings in the field of computing.

General understanding of the author, the next step back to the topic, introduce the teacher to recommend the book.

"The World is Digital," is the world's top computer scientist Brian W. Kernighan and C-language father Ricky to the general Reader's introductory book, about the people in the mathematical age should know about the computer and the Internet knowledge. This book "The World Is Mathematics" is a popular science book, the reader object is non-professional. This book is concise, interesting, and thought-provoking, and many of the views are of great value to both professionals and the general public. Whether you have a computer background or whatever you do, this book is a must-read if you agree that you live in the digital age. This book is known as the C language of the Bible, affecting a generation of programmers.

As a liberal arts student majoring in science, I have benefited a lot from reading this book. First of all, the most obvious benefit is that after reading this book, I learned a lot about my own professional knowledge. Some of the previously ignorant concepts, a lot of computer hardware, software and configuration of some professional terminology can only say the name, but completely do not understand what is the use, and now a basic understanding of a little. In this information age, a cell phone is even more powerful than a computer at that time, everyone can enjoy the convenience of high-speed Internet access, we search, online shopping, using e-mail, text messages and social networking sites to stay in touch with friends and family. I deeply felt the magical power of this age, and had to lament the wisdom of mankind.

But this is only a small microcosm of the computer age, and the unknown part is as big as an iceberg hidden beneath the sea level. As I am in this society is small, I do not understand or temporarily have no contact with a lot of, they hide in the future waiting for me to find, and in life everywhere, inadvertently in an unexpected way affect us. As mentioned before, I am a liberal arts student, seemingly brilliant, is actually a computer idiot, this book let me Out of the "idiot" this label. So whoever you are, you should know the computer world, because it has a personal impact on everyone. Those who have no basic knowledge of the computer do not understand this, but also do not know that our human dependence on the computer has been difficult to imagine.

So I hope that this book will allow more people to see, from the understanding of the computer, to truly integrate into this progressive era. Have an in-depth understanding of computer and communication technologies, understand their origins, how they work and the trends of future development, and then be able to look at the world from the point of view of their usefulness.

Thoughts on reading "The World is digital"