Learn about computer science by exploring the fascinating journey it took to make this book!
How human descriptions are translated into computer programs How a computer can understand document formatting How a program decides where to print ink on a page Why computer science is so interesting to computer scientists, and why it might interest you .and much more! About the technology
About the book
This book takes you on a journey from the plain white page, weaving through typesetting, making gray images from black ink, electronic file formats, and more. It makes computer science come alive as you see how every word, illustration, and page has its own story. You’ll even learn to write your own simple programs and discover hands-on what’s so intoxicating about computer science.
What’s inside
How human descriptions are translated into computer programs How a digital computer thinks about print documents How a program decides where to print ink on a page How the history of typesetting shows up in modern books About the reader
About the author
John Whitington is the founder of a company that builds software for electronic document processing. He has studied and taught Computer Science at Queens’ College, Cambridge.
Technical editor on this book was Bojan Stojanovic.
Table of Contents
1 Putting marks on paper
2 Letter forms
3 Storing words
4 Looking and finding
5 Typing it in
6 Saving space
7 The sums behind the screen
8 Gray areas
9 A typeface
10 Words to paragraphs
11 Out into the world
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