A balanced introduction to computer scienceFor Introduction to Computing and the Web courses in the departments of Math and Computer Science.This carefully written, balanced text teaches students the most important concepts in computing and computer science while providing enough programming depth to enable them to understand how people work with computers. Taking advantage of today's students' interest in and familiarity with the Web, the text contains experimental problems using Web-based tools; enabling them to learn the fundamentals of programming by developing their own interactive Web pages. |
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| Title | A balanced introduction to computer science |
| Author | David Reed (Ph. D.) |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 2 Feb 2012 |
| Length | 371 pages |
| Subjects | › Computer science Computers / Computer Science |
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