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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... record . Thus , a file stored in mass storage will typically consist of many physical records . In contrast to this division into physical records , a file often has natural divisions determined by the information represented . For ...
... records , each of which contains the information about an employee's pay ( name , employee iden- tification number , pay scale , etc. ) from which checks must be printed on a routine basis . As each employee record is retrieved , that ...
... record , only 40 of the 41 buckets are still empty , so the probability that the second record will be placed in an empty bucket is only 40/41 . Assuming that the second record is placed in an empty bucket , the third record finds only ...