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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... contains a collection of routines for performing fundamental input / output activities such as receiving information from the keyboard , displaying messages on the computer screen , and reading data from mass storage . Being stored in ...
... contains the entry on top of the stack . Our machine language provides two instructions for loading registers : one with op - code 2 , the other with op - code 1. Recall that in the case of op - code 2 , the operand field contains the ...
... contains the data involved as demonstrated by op - code 2. In the second , the instruction's operand Figure 8.26 ... contains pointer Bus to register during execute phase of machine cycle Data Pointer indicates location of Data contains ...