I'm pretty sure this is not normal. Every time I start a new book on programming or programming languages, unless it's an advanced book, it starts with the very basics. Everything is data. What are variables. What are operands. Etc.
I never skip past this portion of the books. I'm familiar with the basics, I use them every single day. Never the less, I love to read about them. For some reason I find this review to be the most exciting part of the books. I love how computers work. I love seeing examples of binary applications. I love how flipping bits on and off can result in amazing feats of computation. I am a mathematics outsider marveling at the magic of mathematics.
Every time I read a different author's take on the basics I learn new things, or at least learn to see and think about them slightly differently than I did.
I guess in this sense it is poetry.
I never skip past this portion of the books. I'm familiar with the basics, I use them every single day. Never the less, I love to read about them. For some reason I find this review to be the most exciting part of the books. I love how computers work. I love seeing examples of binary applications. I love how flipping bits on and off can result in amazing feats of computation. I am a mathematics outsider marveling at the magic of mathematics.
Every time I read a different author's take on the basics I learn new things, or at least learn to see and think about them slightly differently than I did.
I guess in this sense it is poetry.
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