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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... representation . At this point , the byte looks like this : 1001 We must now fill in the exponent field . To this end , we imagine the contents of the mantissa field with a radix point at its left and determine the number of bits and ...
... representations differ . The distinction between an algorithm and its representation presents a problem when we try to communicate algorithms . A common example involves the level of detail at which an algorithm must be described ...
... Representation In this section we consider issues relating to an algorithm's representation . Our goal is to introduce the basic concepts of primitives and pseudocode as well as to establish a representation system for our own use ...