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| Introduction | |
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| The Role of Algorithms | |
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| The Origins of Computing Machines | |
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| The Science of Algorithms | |
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| Abstraction | |
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| An Outline of Our Study | |
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| Social Repercussions | |
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| Data Storage | |
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| Bits and Their Storage | |
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| Main Memory | |
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| Mass Storage | |
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| Representing Information as Bit Patterns | |
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| The Binary System | |
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| Storing Integers | |
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| Storing Fractions | |
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| Data Compression | |
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| Communication Errors | |
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| Data Manipulation | |
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| Computer Architecture | |
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| Machine Language | |
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| Program Execution | |
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| Arithmetic/Logic Instructions | |
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| Communicating with Other Devices | |
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| Other Architectures | |
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| Operating Systems | |
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| The History of Operating Systems | |
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| Operating System Architecture | |
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| Coordinating the Machine s Activities | |
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| Handling Competition Among Processes | |
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| Security | |
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| Networking and the Internet | |
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| Network Fundamentals | |
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| The Internet | |
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| The World Wide Web | |
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| Internet Protocols | |
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| Security | |
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| Algorithms | |
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| The Concept of an Algorithm | |
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| Algorithm Representation | |
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| Algorithm Discovery | |
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| Iterative Structures | |
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| Recursive Structures | |
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| Efficiency and Correctness | |
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| Programming Languages | |
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| Historical Perspective | |
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| Traditional Programming Concepts | |
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| Procedural Units | |
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| Language Implementation | |
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| Object-Oriented Programming | |
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| Programming Concurrent Activities | |
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| Declarative Programming | |
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| Software Engineering | |
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| The Software Engineering Discipline | |
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| The Software Life Cycle | |
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| Software Engineering Methodologies | |
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| Modularity | |
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| Tools of the Trade | |
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| Quality Assurance | |
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| Documentation | |
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| The Human-Machine Interface | |
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| Software Ownership and Liability | |
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| Data Abstractions | |
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| Basic Data Structures | |
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| Related Concepts | |
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| Implementing Data Structures | |
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| A Short Case Study | |
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| Customized Data Types | |
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| Classes and Objects | |
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| Pointers in Machine Language | |
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| Database Systems | |
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| Database Fundamentals | |
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| The Relational Model | |
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| Object-Oriented Databases | |
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| Maintaining Database Integrity | |
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| Traditional File Structures | |
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| Data Mining | |
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| Social Impact of Database Technology | |
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| Computer Graphics | |
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| The Scope of Computer Graphics | |
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| Overview of 3D Graphics | |
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| Modeling | |
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| Rendering | |
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| Dealing with Global Lighting | |
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| Animation | |
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| Artificial Intelligence | |
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| Intelligence and Machines | |
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| Perception | |
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| Reasoning | |
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| Additional Areas of Research | |
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| Artificial Neural Networks | |
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| Robotics | |
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| Considering the Consequences | |
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| Theory of Computation | |
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| Functions and Their Computation | |
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| Turing Machines | |
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| Universal Programming Languages | |
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| A Noncomputable Function | |
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| Complexity of Problems | |
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| Public-Key Cryptography | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| ASCII | |
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| Circuits to Manipulate Two s Complement Representations | |
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| A Simple Machine Language | |
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| High-Level Programming Languages | |
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| The Equivalence of Iterative and Recursive Structures | |
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| Answers to Questions & Exercises | |
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| Index | |