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Crashing Computers - Michael Coleman


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Crashing Computers - Michael Coleman

 
Description: ISBN 0590114255 / Genre: Junior Books / Author: Michael Coleman / Paperback / 160 Pages / Book is published 1999-06-18 by Scholastic

Newest Review: ... learnt something completely different. Crashing Computers like I mentioned in my introduction is a book all about Computers ... more

 ... and charters their birth process from the first computer, a calculator clock, to today's modern PC's. As well as this process, which is given to the reader in the form of a timeline accompanied by some fantastic illustrations, the book also discusses the big mistakes made making computers, connecting computers and the robots that use computers to function. All of this information is spread across 11 sizeable chapters, which are themselves spread across 158 pages. Now although the writing within the book is impo...more

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Premium Review Crashing Computers - Michael Coleman: Computers may crash but this book certainly doesn't (756 words)
by - written on 19/02/09 (Very useful, 123 readings)
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Although I spend rather a lot of time on my computer I must admit that I'm not particularly interested in how they came to be or how they work. In fact to be perfectly honest I wouldn't say I'm at all interested. Why then did I find myself reading Michael Coleman's 'Crashing Computers'? This question is in fact very simple to answer as the only reason I read this book is the fact that it was the only one out of my brothers 'The Knowledge' series that I hadn't read and so not wanting to leave it out I thought I'd give it a try. As you may have guessed from the fact that I said that this book is technically my brother's that 'Crashing Computers' is ...  Read the complete review

 

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