A Balanced Introduction to Computer ScienceThis carefully written, balanced book teaches the most important concepts in computing and computer science while providing enough programming depth to enable understanding about how people work with computers. Taking advantage of today's interest in and familiarity with the Web, the book contains experimental problems using Web-based tools; enabling readers to learn the fundamentals of programming by developing their own interactive Web pages. Beginning with an introduction, overview, and the basics of computers, the book proceeds with comprehensive chapters on HTML and Web pages, the Internet, JavaScript and Web page creation, the history of computers, abstraction and user-defined functions, algorithms and programming languages, event-driven programming, conditional execution, data representation, conditional repetition, JavaScript strings, and transistors and integrated circuits. This book can serve as an excellent reference resource for those entering the computer job market: programmers, Web site and Web page designers, and technical support staff. |
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Contents
HTML and Web Pages | 19 |
JavaScript and Dynamic Web Pages | 58 |
6 The History of Computers | 98 |
Copyright | |
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Address algorithm ARPANet array assigned binary numbers bit pattern Boolean browser button Celsius characters circuit circuitry components computer science contains control unit convert counter Dave Reed define dice rolls display Edit View Favorites electrical errors example executed EXERCISE Fahrenheit Figure format function grade hardware input instructions integer integrated circuits Internet Explorer JavaScript JavaScript code JavaScript statements load machine machine language machine-language main memory memory cell memory location menu Microsoft Internet Netscape Navigator operating system output perform Pig Latin processors prompts the user random registers repCount represented result return statement rolll SCRIPT tags script type="text/javascript sequence server simulator specify Stop Refresh Home stored string switch task temperature text area text box transistors TRUE or FALSE user clicks vacuum tubes variable Web browser Web server window wire write statement
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Balanced Introduction to Computer Science |
| Author | David Reed |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 6 Nov 2009 |
| ISBN | 013046709X, 9780130467096 |
| Length | 371 pages |
| Subjects | › Computers / General |
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