Invitation to computer science Java version
This edition of Invitation to Computer Science follows the breadth-first guidelines recommended by CC2001 to teach computer science topics from the ground up. The authors begin by showing that computer science is the study of algorithms, the central theme of the book, then move up the next five leve...
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Boston, MA
Thomson Course Technology
2007
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to computer science
- Level 1: The algorithmic foundations of computer science
- Algorithm discovery and design
- The efficiency of algorithms
- Level 2: The hardware world
- The building blocks: binary numbers, Boolean logic, and gates
- Computer systems organization
- Level 3: The virtual machine
- An introduction to system software and virtual machines
- Computer networks, the Internet, and the World Wide Web
- Level 4: The software world
- Introduction to high-level language programming
- The Tower of Babel
- Compilers and language translation
- Models of computation
- Level 5: Applications
- Simulation and modeling
- Electronic commerce and information security
- Artificial intelligence
- Level 6: Social issues in computing
- Making decisions about computers, information, and society