Computer science - an overview

✍ Scribed by J. Glenn Brookshear

• Book ID: 127424395
• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 8 MB
• Edition: 9
• Category: Library
• ISBN-13: 9780321434456

✦ Synopsis

For over a decade, students and instructors alike have praised the broad coverage and clear exposition in the leading text Computer Science: An Overview. Glenn Brookshear draws on years of success in the classroom in this practical, language-independent approach to the introduction of core computing science topics. This Ninth Edition provides a balanced, realistic picture of the dynamic nature of computer science by presenting the historical background and the most up-to-date research and trends. It engages students with timely topics like bioinformatics and artificial intelligence, and provides coverage of foundational hardware topics like data representation/storage, machine architecture, and machine language.