Kernighan Brian W. D is for Digital. What a well-informed person should know about computers and communications

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. — 238 p.Hardware
What's in a Computer?
Logical Construction
CPU
RAM
Disks and secondary storage
Et cetera
Physical Construction
Moore's Law
Bits, Bytes, and Representation of Information
Analog versus Digital
Analog-Digital Conversion
Bits, Bytes, and Binary
Bits
Powers of two and powers of ten
Binary numbers
Bytes
Summary
Inside the CPU
The Toy Computer
Real CPUs
Caching
Other Kinds of Computers
Wrapup on Hardware
Software
Algorithms
Linear Algorithms
Binary Search
Sorting
Hard Problems and ComplexityProgramming and Programming Languages
Assembly Language
High-Level Languages
Software Development
5.3.1 Libraries, interfaces, and development kits
Bugs
Software as Property
Intellectual property
Standards
Open-source
Software Systems
Operating Systems
How an Operating System Works
System calls
Device drivers
Other Operating Systems
File Systems
Disk file systems
Removing files
Other file systems
Applications
Layers of Software
Learning to Program
Programming Language Concepts
A First JavaScript Example
A Second JavaScript Example
Loops
Conditionals
Libraries and Interfaces
How JavaScript Works
Wrapup on Software
Communications
Networking
Telephones and Modems
Cable and DSL
Local Area Networks and Ethernet
Wireless
Cell PhonesThe Internet
An Internet Overview
Domain Names and Addresses
Domain Name System
IP addresses
Root servers
Registering your own domain
Routing
Protocols
IP, the Internet Protocol
TCP, the Transmission Control Protocol
Higher-level Protocols
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
Telnet: remote login
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
File sharing and peer-to-peer protocols
An aside on copyright
Summary of high-level protocols
Bandwidth
Compression
Error Detection and CorrectionThe World Wide Web
How the Web Works
HTML
Forms
Cookies
Active Content in Web Pages
Active Content Elsewhere
Viruses and Worms
Web Security
Attacks on clients
Attacks on servers
Attacks on information in transit
Defending yourself
Cryptography
Secret-key cryptography
Public-key cryptographyData, Information, and Privacy
Search
Tracking
Databases, Information, and Aggregation
Giving It Away
Cloud ComputingWrapping Up