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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... Figure 1.16 . Note that since binary notation uses only the digits 0 and 1 , this multiply - and - add process reduces merely to adding the quantities associated ... Figure 1.18 Applying the algorithm in Figure 1.15 to obtain. 42 DATA ...
... Figure 9.4 . ) 17. Design a relational database containing infor- mation about publishers , magazines , and sub- scribers , in which the relationships among these entities are represented by the following entity - relationship diagram ...
... Figure 10.18 . The problem is to identify either letter when it is placed in the field of vision , regardless of its orientation . All the patterns in Figure 10.19 ( a ) should be identified as Cs , and all those in part ( b ) should be ...