Notes on The Internet

You go onto your computer, open a browser and type www.google.com and hit enter. What happens?

Harvard CS75 Lecture 0 starts off with the above question

Translate the name of the site www.google.com into an IP address.
What is an IP address? It’s a number of the form w.x.y.z.
Each of the w,x,y,z can be between 0 and 255 (8 bits). So that gives us 32 bits, and that gives us a total of 4 billion IP addresses.

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It’s limited in it’s simplicity by the inherent complexity of it’s aim.

C is the foundational language of Computer Science.

Deleting all files with a certain pattern in the filename rm *.c # This deletes all the .c files

Cpython is the official implementation of Python. It is written in C (hence the name).

The goal is to gain a better understanding of computer systems and become a better hacker.

The x86 architecture is the most popular architecture for desktop and laptop computers.

Getting started with Jekyll First install bundler and jekyll. gem install jekyll bundler

Lisp is the greatest single programming language ever designed - Alan Kay

You go onto your computer, open a browser and type www.google.com and hit enter. What happens?

This is a collection of links to some of the interesting articles I found on the internet

A parser turns a list of tokens into an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST).