Honestly, I'm not entirely sure why you might care, but I'll do my best to make the read worthwhile :)
It is pretty much impossible to navigate the modern world without, at some point, being exposed to the fundamental computing concepts of Bits and Bytes. Sometimes these words are used...
If you have never written a computer program - and I'm assuming that most of you haven't - you might well be under the impression that computer programming is an esoteric discipline requiring special skills possessed only by a few. But programming - like almost any discipline - can be exercised...
I've posted a number of times already, but I thought I'd take a few minutes to introduce myself to this fine community.
By background, I'm an engineer (MSME) by education, and a software person by career. I was involved in Computer Aided Design software from '84 - '05, as an application...