Really Understand Binary - Paperback

by Rex a. Barzee (Author)

Are you planning a career in computing? Do you use binary or hexadecimal but want to understand it better? Software developers, network analysts, and computer security analysts are just some of the people who need to really understand binary.

The binary number system (also called base 2) is used by computers to store numbers and to perform arithmetic. A software developer that understands binary will write code that compensates for the limitations a computer has when doing arithmetic. A network analyst will use binary to divide and configure networks with subnet masks. A security analyst will use binary to understand data encryption and to analyze attacks.

This book will help you really understand binary by comparing it to what you already know in base 10. From this book you will learn

1. How to easily convert between binary, hexadecimal, and decimal
2. How to add, negate, subtract, divide, and multiply in binary
3. How a computer multiplies integers in binary
4. What the binary operators do: left shift, unsigned right shift, signed right shift, not, and, or, exclusive or
5. How binary floating point numbers represent real base 10 numbers

Author Biography

Rex A. Barzee is a professor of Computer Information Technology at Brigham Young University - Idaho. He is the inventor of two United States patents and the author of numerous books. He earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. Before becoming a professor, he worked in industry for eight years as a software engineer for Southwest Research Institute, Hewlett-Packard Company, Voyant Technologies, and the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory. He worked on a variety of projects including the HP-UX kernel, the HP-UX standard C library, HP-UX OpenGL 3D Graphics Library, full text indexing, image processing, and VoiceXML applications. You can see his full profile at LinkedIn. Books by the Author -The Handbook for Beginning Programmers with Examples in JavaScript -The Handbook for Beginning Programmers with Examples in Java -The Handbook for Beginning Programmers with Examples in Python -The Handbook for Beginning Programmers with Examples in Visual Basic -Really Understand Binary -Advanced Programming Techniques -Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a Dance Party Doorbell