Donald Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" is a great series of books.
Bipod wrote:
When she figures out how the firmware works, maybe she can explain it to me. :-)
(I'm dying to know the boot sequence after power-on.)
Parents often buy little Johnny a PC or Mac so that he can "learn about computers".
Of course, all he learns is how to click on icons in applications programs.
They'd do better to buy him a copy of Knuth's *Fundamental Algorithms*.
In this case, you've got photography (which is difficult, but basically simple)
and this excellent Nikon D90 camera, which is an enormously complex computer.
There are many reasons why most people learn to fly in a Cessan 150 and not in
a heavy twin -- not the least of which are low cost and simplicity. But hey,
if somone"picks up things quickly", I'll bet they can learn to fly in an F-22!
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