Computer Science: An OverviewComputer Science: An Overview truly lives up to its title, providing an introduction to the entire computer science discipline. This broad coverage, combined with clear explanations, has made it the leading textbook for the beadth-first/CS0 course. The text is unique in that it avoids presenting topics from the perspective of any particular programming language. Moreover, the text 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 result is a balanced, realistic picture of computer science, including such topics as programming languages, operating systems, algorithms, software engineering, networking, database design, artificial intelligence, and machine architecture. This seventh edition has been thoroughly updated to discuss important trends in such areas as networking and the Internet, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. Topics added include open-source development, associative memory, XML, and C#. Thought-provoking discussions of ethical and legal issues revolving around computing are integrated into each chapter rather than being presented as separate, isolated topics. |
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... Figure 1.30 . To understand how this code works , we first define the Hamming distance ( named after R. W. Hamming , who pioneered the search for error - correcting codes after becoming frustrated with the lack of reliability of the ...
... Figure 9.4 . ) 17. Design a relational database containing infor- mation about music performers , their record- ings , and the composers of the music they recorded . ( Avoid redundancies similar to those in Figure 9.4 . ) 18. Design a ...
... Figure 10.16 Representation of a processing unit -2 3 1.5 -1 and then adds these products to form the effective input ( v1w1 + v2w2 + vzw3 ) . If this sum exceeds the processing unit's threshold value , the unit produces an output of 1 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
MACHINE ARCHITECTURE | 17 |
Data Manipulation | 73 |
Copyright | |
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