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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... approach ( developed by Sun Microsystems ) is to first transfer a Web page to a browser and then transfer additional program units called applets ( written in the language Java ) to the browser as requested within the Web page document ...
... approach to the programming process . It is the paradigm on which our pseudocode of Chapter 5 is based as well as the machine language dis- cussed in Chapter 2. As the name suggests , the imperative paradigm defines the pro- gramming ...
... approach would be to ask the mem- bers one at a time . If you took this approach , the occurrence of what event would tell you that there was such a person ? What event would tell you that there was no such person ? Now suppose that you ...