{"id":497,"date":"2011-08-10T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T01:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/?p=497"},"modified":"2011-08-10T18:49:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T01:49:36","slug":"programming-for-mere-mortals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/2011\/programming-for-mere-mortals\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming for Mere Mortals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stevenf.com\/pages\/book.html\"><em>Programming for Mere Mortals<\/em><\/a> is a series of books designed to introduce the concepts of programming from the ground up to a reader who has never written a line of code.<\/p>\n<p>The first volume, <em>How to Count<\/em> (approx. 70 pages), introduces you in a laid-back, conversational tone to math concepts that are essential to becoming a successful programmer. Topics include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Numeric bases (decimal, binary, hexadecimal)<\/li>\n<li>Signed vs. unsigned numbers<\/li>\n<li>Units of data measure<\/li>\n<li>Floating point and fixed point arithmetic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programming for Mere Mortals is a series of books designed to introduce the concepts of programming from the ground up to a reader who has never written a line of code. The first volume, How to Count (approx. 70 pages), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/2011\/programming-for-mere-mortals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}