John Maccormick's Nine Algorithm That Change The Future

I read the book Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future by John MacCormick. Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future is a 210-page book that covers fascinating algorithms that we all use in our everyday lives. As MacCormick puts it “Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact.” MacCormick’s writings explains how our computers can handle these complex tasks with ease in way that everyone can understand. MacCormick’s writing style is eloquent and simple, a reader does not need an understanding of computer science to feel comfortable and enjoy reading the Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future. The intended audience for this book is anybody that is interested to learn about how computers which we use every day work. You don’t have to be a computer science major or even know anything about computers. Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future starts out with the premise that everyone is in love with computers and the tasks they can accomplish, but most people have very little knowledge about what goes on inside the computers. MacCormick takes the high-level examples of tasks that computers can accomplish and explains the inner workings of what it takes to accomplish those tasks and some approaches developers took to solving the problems associated with completing that task. I am working to …show more content…
In this position I create SQL queries from UMW’s databases. In the future I want to continue to work in the field of Database Management or something similar. Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future helped me get a basic understanding of some of the back-end features of databases that I had never considered before. I can hopefully use the knowledge I learned from reading this book to further my future