Computer Science : An Overview
ISBN: 9780321524034 | 0321524039
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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"Computer Science: An Overview, Tenth Edition, delivers a solid, comprehensive overview of what computer science is all about. Each topic is presented with its historical perspective, current state, and future potential, as well as ethical issues for students to consider. This balanced, realistic picture helps students see the many opportunities that computing presents for further studies and future careers."--BOOK JACKET.
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| Introduction | |
| The Role of Algorithms | |
| The Origins of Computing Machines | |
| The Science of Algorithms | |
| Abstraction | |
| An Outline of Our Study | |
| Social Repercussions | |
| Data Storage | |
| Bits and Their Storage | |
| Main Memory | |
| Mass Storage | |
| Representing Information as Bit Pat... MORE | |
| The Binary System | |
| Storing Integers | |
| Storing Fractions | |
| Data Compression | |
| Communication Errors | |
| Data Manipulation | |
| Computer Architecture | |
| Machine Language | |
| Program Execution | |
| Arithmetic/Logic Instructions | |
| Communicating with Other Devices | |
| Other Architectures | |
| Operating Systems | |
| The History of Operating Systems | |
| Operating System Architecture | |
| Coordinating the Machine s Activities | |
| Handling Competition Among Processes | |
| Security | |
| Networking and the Internet | |
| Network Fundamentals | |
| The Internet | |
| The World Wide Web | |
| Internet Protocols | |
| Security | |
| Algorithms | |
| The Concept of an Algorithm | |
| Algorithm Representation | |
| Algorithm Discovery | |
| Iterative Structures | |
| Recursive Structures | |
| Efficiency and Correctness | |
| Programming Languages | |
| Historical Perspective | |
| Traditional Programming Concepts | |
| Procedural Units | |
| Language Implementation | |
| Object-Oriented Programming | |
| Programming Concurrent Activities | |
| Declarative Programming | |
| Software Engineering | |
| The Software Engineering Discipline | |
| The Software Life Cycle | |
| Software Engineering Methodologies | |
| Modularity | |
| Tools of the Trade | |
| Quality Assurance | |
| Documentation | |
| The Human-Machine Interface | |
| Software Ownership and Liability | |
| Data Abstractions | |
| Basic Data Structures | |
| Related Concepts | |
| Implementing Data Structures | |
| A Short Case Study | |
| Customized Data Types | |
| Classes and Objects | |
| Pointers in Machine Language | |
| Database Systems | |
| Database Fundamentals | |
| The Relational Model | |
| Object-Oriented Databases | |
| Maintaining Database Integrity | |
| Traditional File Structures | |
| Data Mining | |
| Social Impact of Database Technology | |
| Computer Graphics | |
| The Scope of Computer Graphics | |
| Overview of 3D Graphics | |
| Modeling | |
| Rendering | |
| Dealing with Global Lighting | |
| Animation | |
| Artificial Intelligence | |
| Intelligence and Machines | |
| Perception | |
| Reasoning | |
| Additional Areas of Research | |
| Artificial Neural Networks | |
| Robotics | |
| Considering the Consequences | |
| Theory of Computation | |
| Functions and Their Computation | |
| Turing Machines | |
| Universal Programming Languages | |
| A Noncomputable Function | |
| Complexity of Problems | |
| Public-Key Cryptography | |
| Appendixes | |
| ASCII | |
| Circuits to Manipulate Two s Complement Representations | |
| A Simple Machine Language | |
| High-Level Programming Languages | |
| The Equivalence of Iterative and Recursive Structures | |
| Answers to Questions & Exercises | |
| Index | |
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