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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... produce a single output bit . These opera- tions can be extended to operations that combine two strings of bits to produce a sin- gle output string by applying the basic operation to individual columns . For example , the result of ...
... produce the value 11. In most languages , parenthe- ses can be used to override the language's operator precedence . Thus 2 * ( 4 + 6 ) / 2 would produce the value 10 . Expressions in assignment statements can also involve operations ...
... produces a 1 if the pattern in the field of view is the circle ; otherwise , all the lower - level units produce an output of 0. In turn , if the upper - level unit assigns each of its inputs the weight 1 and has a thresh- old of 12 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
MACHINE ARCHITECTURE | 17 |
Data Manipulation | 73 |
Copyright | |
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