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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... string of Os and 1s , the building blocks might be the digits 0 and 1. In an adaptive dictionary encoding system , the dictionary is allowed to change during the encoding process . For example , in the case of English text , after ...
... string while leaving the other four bits undisturbed . What mask must you use together with what operation ? 4. a . Suppose you XOR the first two bits of a string of bits and then continue down the string by successively XORing each ...
... string of eight bits , produces an output string of all Os if and only if the input string is 10000001 . * 33 . Describe a sequence of logical operations ( along with their corresponding masks ) that , when applied to an input string of ...