Computer Science: An OverviewComputer Science: An Overview truly lives up to its title, providing a timely introduction to the entire computer science discipline. Broad coverage, combined with clear explanations, has made it the leading textbook for the breadth-first course. This book provides a balanced, realistic picture that communicates the dynamics of computer science by presenting topics in a historical perspective in which past developments, the current state of the art, and directions of research are discussed. The coverage of topics such as programming languages, operating systems, algorithms, software engineering, networking, database design, artificial intelligence, and machine architecture result in a complete overview of the field of computer science. |
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... function . Here the term function refers to a program unit similar to a procedure except that a value is transferred back to the calling program unit as “ the value of the function . " That is , as a consequence of executing the ...
... functions . A function in its mathematical sense is a correspondence between a collection of possible input values and a collection of output values so that each possible input is assigned a single output . An example is the function ...
... function . The function's input consists of values assigned to variables prior to executing the program , and the function's output consists of the values of variables when the program terminates . To compute the function , we merely ...