How do we decide where to put ink on a page to draw letters and pictures? How can computers represent all the world’s languages and writing systems? What exactly is a computer program, what and how does it calculate, and how can we build one? Can we compress information to make it easier to store and quicker to transmit? How do newspapers print photographs with grey tones using just black ink and white paper? How are paragraphs laid out automatically on a page and split across multiple pages?
In A Machine Made this Book, using examples from the publishing industry, John Whitington introduces the fascinating discipline of Computer Science to the uninitiated.
Author(s): John Whitington
Publisher: Coherent Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 199
Cover
About the Book
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Putting Marks on Paper
2 Letter Forms
3 Storing Words
4 Looking and Finding
5 Typing it In
6 Saving Space
7 Doing Sums
8 Grey Areas
9 Our Typeface
10 Words to Paragraphs
Solutions
Further Reading
Templates
Colophon
Index
