Great Ideas in Computer Science, Second Edition A Gentle Introduction

Name: Great Ideas in Computer Science, Second Edition A Gentle Introduction
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ISBN: 9780262522236

ISBN-10: 0262522233

ISBN-13: 9780262522236

Edition: 2nd 1997

Authors: Alan W. Biermann

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The second edition of this introduction to the 'great ideas' of computer science contains new materials on simulation, operating systems, and networks, and has been revised to make it more accessible.

Book details

List price: $70.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/6/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 566
Size: 7.95" wide x 8.94" long x 1.72" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Alan W. Biermann is Professor of Computer Science at Duke University. He is also the author of the first two editions of Great Ideas in Computer Science (MIT Press, 1990, 1997).



Preface to the Second Edition


Preface


Studying Academic Computer Science: An Introduction



An Introduction to Programming: Coding Decision Trees



Text Manipulation and Algorithm Design



Numerical Computation and a Study of Functions



Top-Down Programming, Subroutines, and a Database Application



Simulation



Software Engineering



Electric Circuits



Machine Architecture



Language Translation



Virtual Environments for Computing



Computer Communications



Program Execution Time



Parallel Computation



Noncomputability



Artificial Intelligence


Appendix A


Appendix B


Readings


Index