Without naming Boolean algebra immediately, Petzold builds AND, OR, and NOT gates from relays. He then shows how these gates form a half-adder , then a full-adder, then an 8-bit adder. By the time he writes “Boolean algebra is the mathematics of switches,” the reader has already invented it themselves.
The 1st Edition (1999) was highly acclaimed but began to show its age regarding modern hardware references. The 2nd Edition, released over two decades later, modernizes the text without losing the core narrative. Key updates include: The 1st Edition (1999) was highly acclaimed but
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