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| Becoming Skilled at Computing | |
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| Defining Information Technology | |
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| Terms of Endearment | |
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| Hardware, Software, and the Experience | |
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| Computers Are Everywhere | |
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| Software | |
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| Experience | |
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| The Data | |
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| Summary | |
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| Terms of Endearment | |
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| Algorithms | |
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| The Words for Ideas | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Exploring the Human-Computer Interface | |
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| Face It, It's a Computer | |
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| A Few Useful Concepts | |
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| Perfect Reproduction | |
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| How We Learn Technology | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| The Basics of Networking | |
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| Making the Connection | |
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| Comparing Communication Types | |
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| The Medium of the Message | |
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| The World Wide Web | |
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| The Internet and the Web | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| A Hypertext Markup Language Primer | |
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| Marking Up with HTML | |
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| Marking Up with HTML | |
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| Lab Practice I | |
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| Structuring Documents | |
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| Lab Practice II | |
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| Marking Links with Anchor Tags | |
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| Including Pictures with Image Tags | |
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| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | |
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| Lists and Tables | |
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| HTML Wrap-Up | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Locating Information on the WWW | |
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| The Search for Truth | |
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| Web Search Fundamentals | |
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| Advanced Searches | |
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| Web Searching | |
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| Authoritative Information | |
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| Truth or Fiction? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| An Introduction to Debugging | |
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| To Err Is Human | |
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| Precision: The High Standards of Computing | |
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| Debugging: What's the Problem? | |
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| A Dialog About Debugging | |
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| Debugging Recap | |
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| Fixing HTML Bugs: A Case Study | |
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| No Printer Output: A Classic Scenario | |
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| Ensuring the Reliability of Software | |
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| Community Debugging | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Interview Vinton G. Cerf | |
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| Algorithms and Digitizing Information | |
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| Representing Information Digitally | |
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| Bits and the "Why" of Bytes | |
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| Digitizing Discrete Information | |
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| Fundamental Information Representation | |
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| Hex Explained | |
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| Digitizing Numbers in Binary | |
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| Digitizing Text | |
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| The Metadata and the OED | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Representing Multimedia Digitally | |
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| Light, Sound, Magic | |
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| Digitizing Color | |
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| Color and the Mystery of Light | |
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| Computing on Representations | |
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| Old Photographs | |
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| Digitizing Sound | |
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| Digital Images and Video | |
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| Optical Character Recognition | |
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| Virtual Reality: Fooling the Senses | |
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| Bits Are It | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Principles of Computer Operations | |
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| Following Instructions | |
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| What Computers Can and Cannot Do | |
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| The Fetch/Execute Cycle | |
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| Anatomy of a Computer | |
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| The Program Counter: The PC's PC | |
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| Instruction Interpretation | |
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| Cycling the Fetch/Execute Cycle | |
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| Software | |
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| Integrated Circuits | |
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| How Semiconductor Technology Works | |
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| Combining the Ideas | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Algorithmic Thinking | |
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| What's the Plan? | |
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| Inside Story on Algorithms | |
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| Algorithms-A Basic Concept | |
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| A Closer Look | |
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| Doing the Right Thing | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Interview Ray Kurzweil | |
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| Data and Information | |
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| Social Implications of IT | |
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| Computers in Polite Society | |
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| The Power of the Crowd | |
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| Out on Good Behavior | |
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| Expect the Unexpected | |
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| Creating Good Passwords | |
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| Spam | |
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| Scams | |
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| Protecting Intellectual Property | |
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| Creative Commons | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Privacy and Digital Security | |
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| Shhh, It's a Secret | |
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| Privacy: Whose Information Is It? | |
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| A Privacy Definition | |
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| Enjoying the Benefits of Privacy | |
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| Fair Information Practices | |
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| Comparing Privacy Worldwide | |
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| The Cookie Monster | |
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| Tracking | |
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| Digital Security | |
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| Plan of Action | |
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| Encryption | |
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| The Take-Home Message | |
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| Back to the Coffee Shop | |
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| Redundancy Is Very, Very, Very Good | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| The Basics of Spreadsheets | |
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| Fill-in-the-Blank Computing | |
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| Arranging Information | |
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| Computing with Spreadsheets | |
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| Daily Spreadsheets | |
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| Importing Data | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Advanced Spreadsheets for Planning | |
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| "What If" Thinking Helps | |
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| Designing a Spreadsheet | |
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| Conditional Formatting | |
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| Conditional Formulas | |
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| Naming: Symbolic Reference | |
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| "What If" Analysis | |
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| Analyzing Data Using Filtering | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Introduction to Database Concepts | |
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| A Table with a View | |
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| Differences Between Tables and Databases | |
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| XML: A Language for Metadata Tags | |
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| Tables and Entities | |
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| Operations on Tables | |
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| Structure of a Database | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| A Case Study in Database Organization | |
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| The iDiary Database | |
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| Thinking About a Personal Database | |
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| A Preliminary Exercise | |
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| The iDiary Database | |
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| Using the iDiary Daily | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Interview Alan Kay | |
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| Problem Solving | |
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| Fundamental Concepts Expressed in JavaScript | |
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| Get with the Program | |
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| Overview: Programming Concepts | |
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| Names, Values, and Variables | |
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| Names Have Changing Values | |
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| Names in a Program Are Called Variables | |
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| A Variable Declaration Statement | |
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| Three Basic Data Types of JavaScript | |
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| The Assignment Statement | |
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| An Expression and Its Syntax | |
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| A Conditional Statement | |
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| The Espresso Program | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| A JavaScript Program | |
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| The Bean Counter | |
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| Preliminaries | |
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| Background for the GUI | |
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| Creating the Graphical User Interface | |
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| Event-Based Programming | |
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| Critiquing the Bean Counter | |
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| Bean Counter Recap | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Programming Functions | |
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| Thinking Big | |
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| Anatomy of a Function | |
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| Forms and Functions | |
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| Writing Functions, Using Functions | |
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| The Memory Bank Web Page | |
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| Improving the Memory Bank Web Page | |
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| Add Final Touches to Memory Bank | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Iteration Principles | |
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| Once Is Not Enough | |
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| Iteration: Play It Again, Sam | |
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| JavaScript Rules for for Loops | |
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| Experiments with Flipping Coins | |
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| Indexing | |
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| Arrays | |
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| The Busy Animation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| A Case Study in Algorithmic Problem Solving | |
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| The Smooth Motion Application | |
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| The Smooth Motion Application | |
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| Planning Smooth Motion | |
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| Build the Basic Web Page GUI | |
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| Animate the Grid | |
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| The Best Laid Plans . . . | |
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| Build Controls | |
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| Sense the Keys | |
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| Staircase Detection | |
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| Assemble Overall Design | |
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| Primp the Design | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Limits to Computation | |
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| Computers Can Do Almost {qEverything, qNothing} | |
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| Can Computers Think? | |
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| Acting Intelligently? | |
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| Playing Chess | |
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| Watson | |
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| Acting Creatively? | |
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| The Universality Principle | |
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| More Work, Slower Speed | |
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| Are "Best" Algorithms All Fast? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| A Fluency Summary | |
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| Click to Close | |
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| Two Big IT Ideas | |
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| Fluency: Less Is More | |
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| Lifelong IT Learning | |
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| Shifting for Yourself | |
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| Try It Solutions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Interview Marc Andreessen | |
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| HTML Reference | |
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| RSA Public Key Cryptosystem | |
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| iDiary: Tags and Templates | |
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| JavaScript Programming Rules | |
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| Bean Counter Program | |
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| The Memory Bank Page | |
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| The Smooth Motion Application | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Answers to Selected Questions | |
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| Index | |
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| Credits | |