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| Introduction and Overview | |
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| Balancing Breadth and Depth | |
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| Text Goals | |
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| Text Features | |
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| Changes in the 2nd Edition | |
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| Advice for the Student | |
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| Advice for the Instructor | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Computer Basics | |
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| What is a Computer? | |
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| Hardware | |
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| Central Processing Unit (CPU)Memory | |
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| Input/Output Devices (I/O)Software | |
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| Operating Systems | |
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| Internet and the Web | |
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| Web Browsers and Servers | |
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| Web Addresses | |
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| Accessing Local Pages | |
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| Looking Ahead...Chapter Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| References | |
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| HTML and Web Pages | |
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| HTML Basics | |
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| HTML Tags | |
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| HTML Elements | |
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| Document Formatting | |
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| Text Spacing | |
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| Headings and Alignment | |
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| Font Formatting | |
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| Hypertext and Multimedia | |
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| Hyperlinks | |
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| Images | |
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| Lists | |
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| Formatting Lists | |
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| Tables | |
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| Table Borders | |
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| Table Alignment | |
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| Making Pages Accessible | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Supplemental Material and Exercises | |
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| The Internet and the World Wide Web | |
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| History of the Internet | |
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| ARPANet | |
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| Growth and Privatization | |
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| How the Internet Works | |
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| Distributed Network | |
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| Packet-Switching | |
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| Internet Protocols: TCP/IP | |
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| Domain Names | |
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| History of the Web | |
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| Hypertext and the Web | |
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| The Web Goes Mainstream | |
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| Web GrowthHow the Web Works | |
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| HTMLWeb Protocol: HTTPCaching | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| JavaScript and Dynamic Web Pages | |
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| Dynamic Web Pages | |
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| Interaction via Assignments and Write Statements | |
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| Formatting Output | |
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| JavaScript Variables | |
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| Variables and Memory Cells | |
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| Interactive Pages | |
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| Localizing Changes with Variables | |
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| Example: Interactive Stories | |
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| Looking Ahead...Chapter Summary | |
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| Supplemental Material and Exercises | |
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| JavaScript Numbers and Expressions | |
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| Data Types and Operators | |
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| Variables and Expressions | |
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| Number Representation | |
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| Evaluating Mixed Expressions | |
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| Prompting for Numbers | |
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| Predefined JavaScript Functions | |
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| Raising Numbers to a Power | |
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| Generating Random Numbers | |
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| Programming Errors and Debugging | |
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| Looking Ahead...Chapter Summary | |
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| Supplemental Material and Exercises | |
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| The History of Computers | |
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| Generation | |
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| Mechanical Computers (1642-1945)Programmable Devices | |
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| Electromagnetic Relays | |
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| Generation | |
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| Vacuum Tubes (1945-1954)Computing and World War IIThe von Neumann Architecture | |
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| Generation | |
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| Transistors (1954-1963)High-Level Programming Languages | |
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| Generation | |
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| Integrated Circuits (1963-1973)Large-Scale Integration | |
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| Computing for Businesses | |
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| Generation | |
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| VLSI (1973-1985)The Personal Computer Revolution | |
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| Generation | |
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| Parallel Processing and Networking (1985-????)Looking Ahead...Chapter Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Event-Driven Pages | |
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| Initiating Actions via Buttons | |
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| Input/Output via Text Boxes | |
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| Text Boxes for Displaying Output | |
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| Text Boxes for Accessing Input | |
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| Text Boxes for Handling Both Input and Output | |
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| Input/Output via Text AreasDynamic Images | |
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| Simplifying Buttons with Functions | |
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| Looking Ahead...Chapter Summary | |
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| Supplemental Material and Exercises | |
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| Algorithms and Programming Languages | |
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| Algorithms | |
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| Algorithms in the Real World | |
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| Designing and Analyzing Algorithms | |
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| An Alternative Algorithm | |
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| Algorithm Analysis | |
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| Big Oh Notation | |
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| Algorithm Example: Searching a List | |
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| Sequential Search | |
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| Binary Search | |
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| Algorithm Analysis | |
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| Algorithm Example: Approximating a S | |