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Computer Science:

An Overview
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Addison Wesley, 2007 - Computers - 599 pages

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.

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This edition is a great place to start for introduction on computer science topics. It goes in depth without over saturating the reader with information that a beginner won't understand. Used in my ...

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Contents

Introduction
1
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147
Algorithms
195
Copyright

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About the author (2007)

J. Glenn Brookshear is a Professor Emeritus at Marquette University where he taught Formal Language, Introduction to Computer Science, and Theory of Computation. He is the author of the previous editions of Computer Science: An Overview.

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