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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... encoded at a rate of 44,100 samples per second requires more than a million bits of storage space . Such space ... encoded as a string of Os and 1s , the building blocks might be the digits 0 and 1. In an adaptive dictionary encoding ...
... encoding . ) These differences are then encoded using a variable - length code to further conserve storage space . Unfortunately , the use of JPEG's lossless mode does not lead to bit maps with sizes that are manageable with today's ...
... encoded version of the instructions in Figure 2.2 Encoded instructions 156C 166D 5056 306E Translation Load register 5 with the bit pattern found in the memory cell at address 6C . Load register 6 with the bit pattern found in the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
MACHINE ARCHITECTURE | 17 |
Data Manipulation | 73 |
Copyright | |
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