Charles Petzold Quotes
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Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven
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To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.
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Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the…
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You probably don't have much of a choice.
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The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to…
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In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices…
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Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick
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NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for?…
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Blend is great for designers because it implements a lot of sophisticated behaviours, but for what I like to do, hand coding XAML is preferable,…
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I started out with machine code and assembly language.
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Some programs - especially games - require that your system be set to a particular color depth and resolution. Often such special settings are different…
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Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours -…
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A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a…
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All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument…
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MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are…
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Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however, no more than 16 different instruments can play at any time,…
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