Computer Science: An OverviewIntroduction to Computer Science Computer Science: An Overview, Ninth Edition J. Glenn Brookshear, "Marquette University" Do you want your students to gain a fundamental understanding of the field of computer science? Would you like them to be excited by the opportunities computing presents for further studies and future careers? "Computer Science: An Overview "delivers a foundational framework of what computer science is all about. Each topic is presented with a historical perspective, its current state, and its future potential, as well as ethical issues for students to consider. This balanced, realistic picture helps students see that their future success depends on a solid overview in the rapidly changing field of computer science. Features:
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... perform its task , Control Game calls on the services of the procedures Serve , Return , ComputePath , and UpdateScore . Note that the structure chart does not indicate how each procedure is to perform its task . Rather , it merely ...
... perform its task , Control Game calls on the services of the procedures Serve , Return , ComputePath , and UpdateScore . Note that the structure chart does not indicate how each procedure is to perform its task . Rather , it merely ...
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... perform activities log- ically similar in nature . For example , consider a module that performs all of a system's communication with the outside world . The " glue " that holds such a module together is that all the activities within ...
... perform activities log- ically similar in nature . For example , consider a module that performs all of a system's communication with the outside world . The " glue " that holds such a module together is that all the activities within ...
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... Perform action A Perform action B Perform action C Each object is only logically cohesive Each method within the object is functionally cohesive can be constructed . The modular approach to software development offers hope in this ...
... Perform action A Perform action B Perform action C Each object is only logically cohesive Each method within the object is functionally cohesive can be constructed . The modular approach to software development offers hope in this ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Data Manipulation | 79 |
Networking and the Internet | 147 |
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