John Whitington

John Whitington founded a company that builds software for electronic document processing. He studied and taught computer science at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He has written textbooks before, but this is his first book for a popular audience.

books by John Whitington

How Computers Make Books
  • March 2024
  • ISBN 9781633438675
  • 176 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Software Engineering / Technology and Computing / Computer Science / Math and Computer Science in Book Production

This book takes you on a journey from the plain white page, weaving through typesetting, making gray images from black ink, electronic file formats, and more. It makes computer science come alive as you see how every word, illustration, and page has its own story. You’ll even learn to write your own simple programs and discover hands-on what’s so intoxicating about computer science.