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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... Pointer Pointer Pointer the contents of that pointer can be used later to find and retrieve the item . In a sense , the pointer points to the data . We have already encountered the concept of a pointer in our study of CPUs in Chapter 2 ...
... pointers instead of only one as we did for a stack . One of these pointers , called the head pointer , keeps track of the head of the queue ; the other , called the tail pointer , keeps track of the tail . When the queue is empty , both ...
... pointer is adjusted back to the begin- ning of the block where other entries are , by this time , waiting . In this ... pointer ) , each entry ( or node ) of the binary tree contains three components : ( 1 ) the data , ( 2 ) a pointer to ...