ch1-introduction
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key concept
A computer system is a collection of hardware and software components that
work together to run computer
programs.
1.1 Information is Bits in Context
source program (or source file):
The source program is a sequence of bits, each with a value of 0 or 1, organized in 8-bit
chunks called bytes. Each byte represents some text character in the program.
text representation
Most modern systems represent text characters using the ASCII standard that
represents each character with a unique byte-sized integer value.
the ASCII text representation of hello.c
@December 28, 2022