Ode to the Mighty Bit

Explore the fundamental building blocks of modern computing in this 36-minute conference talk from Devoxx. Dive deep into bits and booleans, examining their crucial role as the foundation of your entire career in software development. Discover the intricacies of truth tables, bit masking, and bit twiddling techniques. Investigate NAND gates and learn how to store and manipulate data, including floating point numbers, in binary format. Conclude with an exploration of the powerful concept of boolean satisfiability and SAT solvers. Presented by Roy van Rijn, a Java Champion and director at OpenValue Rotterdam, this talk offers a fresh perspective on the often-overlooked importance of the regular binary bit in contrast to quantum bits.