The Most Complex Machine

A Survey of Computers and Computing

David J. Eck (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

2000
A K Peters (Verlag)
978-1-56881-128-4 (ISBN)

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This book includes the fundamental ideas and principles on which modern computers are built. It has found a wide audience among computer users who wish to understand the basis of the machines that form and transform our society.

This introduction to computers presents the fundamental ideas and principles on which modern computers are built. While used as a text for courses in computer appreciation as well as introductions to computer science, the book has found a wide audience among computer users who wish to understand the basis of the machines that form and transform our society.

What Computers Do • Teaching Silicon to Compute • Building a Computer •†Theoretical Computers • Real Computers • Programming • Subroutines and Recursion • Real Programming Languages • Applications • Cooperating Computers • Graphics • Artificial Intelligence • Answers • The text is supplemented by a web site that gives access to other problems and projects.

1. Introduction: What Computers Do, 2 Teaching Silicon to Compute, 3 Building a Computer, 4 Theoretical Computers, 5 Real Computers, 6 Programming, 7 Subroutines and Recursion, 8 Real Programming Languages, 9 Applications, 11 Graphics, 12 Artifical Intelligence. Answers, Annotated Bibliogrpahy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.4.2000
Verlagsort	Natick
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	660 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
ISBN-10	1-56881-128-4 / 1568811284
ISBN-13	978-1-56881-128-4 / 9781568811284
Zustand	Neuware