A Balanced Introduction to Computer ScienceThis carefully written, balanced book teaches the most important concepts in computing and computer science while providing enough programming depth to enable understanding about how people work with computers. Taking advantage of today's interest in and familiarity with the Web, the book contains experimental problems using Web-based tools; enabling readers to learn the fundamentals of programming by developing their own interactive Web pages. Beginning with an introduction, overview, and the basics of computers, the book proceeds with comprehensive chapters on HTML and Web pages, the Internet, JavaScript and Web page creation, the history of computers, abstraction and user-defined functions, algorithms and programming languages, event-driven programming, conditional execution, data representation, conditional repetition, JavaScript strings, and transistors and integrated circuits. This book can serve as an excellent reference resource for those entering the computer job market: programmers, Web site and Web page designers, and technical support staff. |
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Programs such as these are known as applications software , each being
designed to carry out tasks within a particular ... The most fundamental task
performed by the operating system is to schedule the CPU's operation ,
controlling how data ...
Programs such as these are known as applications software , each being
designed to carry out tasks within a particular ... The most fundamental task
performed by the operating system is to schedule the CPU's operation ,
controlling how data ...
Page 235
In English , descriptions of repetitive tasks usually focus on the stopping condition
for the loop - an activity recurs until something ... For example , the task of rolling
dice until doubles are obtained requires a while loop whose test is ( rolli !
In English , descriptions of repetitive tasks usually focus on the stopping condition
for the loop - an activity recurs until something ... For example , the task of rolling
dice until doubles are obtained requires a while loop whose test is ( rolli !
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This is because two machine languages might divide the same task into different
sets of instructions , and one set might be more efficient than the other . That is ,
one CPU might be able to complete a task in a single cycle , whereas another ...
This is because two machine languages might divide the same task into different
sets of instructions , and one set might be more efficient than the other . That is ,
one CPU might be able to complete a task in a single cycle , whereas another ...
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Contents
Computer Basics | 1 |
HTML and Web Pages | 19 |
JavaScript and Dynamic Web Pages | 58 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Balanced Introduction to Computer Science |
| Author | David Reed |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 2 Feb 2012 |
| ISBN | 013046709X, 9780130467096 |
| Length | 371 pages |
| Subjects | › Computers / General |
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