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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... digit . Note ( Appendix C ) that these op - codes are repre- sented by the hexadecimal digits 1 through C. In particular , the table in Appendix C shows us that an instruction beginning with the hexadecimal digit 3 refers to a STORE ...
... digits 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , rearranges the digits so that the new arrangement represents the next larger value that can be represented by these digits ( or reports that no such rearrangement exists if no rearrangement ...
... digits 1 through 8 in a well - organized pattern . The prob- lem is merely to extract the arrangement of these digits . For this , we imagine that the picture of the puzzle has been encoded in terms of bits in the computer's memory ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
MACHINE ARCHITECTURE | 17 |
Data Manipulation | 73 |
Copyright | |
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