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'An excellent course text around which to base lectures.' 'Well structured, not too complicated, breaks down topics into easily assimilated components.' 'The most comprehensive around ...' Lecturers This highly popular text is used on a wide range of computing courses, including A Level, BTEC, City & Guilds, BCS and BSC. Information has been included on the Internet, RAD and Object Oriented methods. Some obsolete or peripheral material has been cut in order to keep the text to a manageable length.
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Carl French is director of Facture International Ltd, a specialist consultancy and software company. He has worked in the financial sector of the computer industry for a number of years, where most recently he has played a leading role in the modernisation of IT systems and services. Prior to his work in the computer industry he was a Principal Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire, following several years¿ experience on a wide variety of computer courses.
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1. Introduction to computers and computer science 2. Data representation and transmission 3. Number bases 4. Overview of hardware and software 5. Documnet processing 6. Main storage 7. Backing storage 8. Workstations and terminals 9. Output devices 10. Data capture and data entry 11. Human computer interfaces 12. GUIs and multimedia 13. Computer Systems Architecture 14. Data Communications and networks 15. Operations on data 16. Program structures 17. Data structures 18. Program design and specification 19. Computer file concepts 20. File organization and access 21. File processing 22. Spreadsheets 23. Boolean algebra 24. Machine logic 25. Formal notations 26. Computer arithmetic 27. Machine logic 28. Low-level languages 29. The input-output subsystem 30. Operating systems 31. Software types and programming languages 32. Translators 33. Database architecture 34. Storage, retrieval and 4GLs 35. Development frameworks 36. Development methods 37. Implementation and post-implementation 38. Project management 39. Application areas Appendix 1 Answers to self-test questions Appendix 2 Details omitted from text for sake of clarity Appendix 3 Course-work projects and study Index
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Computer Science: an Instructional Manual
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Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: first ] Publisher: D.P. Publications Pub Date: 1/1/1982 Binding: reprint Pages: 438 first edition. Seller Inventory # 6647681
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Computer Science - An Instructional Manual
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Computer Science ? An Instructional Manual (1980) by C. S. French D. P. Publications ? ISBN: 0905435133 Condition: Fair As sold by Crappy Old Books Welcome to 1980, when ?computer science? still sounded slightly mysterious, slightly bureaucratic, and faintly like something you needed permission to study. Computer Science ? An Instructional Manual is exactly what it says on the tin: a no-nonsense guide from the era of chunky keyboards, dot-matrix confidence, and the unshakeable belief that if you could master Boolean algebra you would be welcomed into the future like a minor deity. This is not a glossy modern ?learn to code in 24 hours? book with cheerful cartoons and a companion website that no longer exists. This is a proper instructional manual: structured, earnest, and quietly intimidating. It assumes you are here to learn , not to be ?inspired.? The cover alone is a time capsule: a purple haze of 80s seriousness, topped with a list of topics that reads like the syllabus of a nation preparing to digitise itself one worksheet at a time. Inside you?ll find the classic foundations: Computer language and operation (because computers were not yet pretending to be friendly) Applications (the idea that a computer might be useful ) Boolean algebra and machine logic (the good, crunchy stuff) Data structures, iteration, files, translation (yes, translation ? because everything used to feel like it needed translating) Statistical methods and simulation And that marvellous period phrase: analog and hybrid computers (because the future hadn?t decided what it wanted to be yet) There?s something deeply comforting about manuals like this. They belong to a world where knowledge had edges, learning had steps, and the machine did what you told it ? provided you were precise, patient, and willing to accept that a missing semicolon could ruin your afternoon. (Some things never change.) Condition: Fair , as sold by Crappy Old Books. This copy has lived the instructional life. Expect wear, scuffing, and that general ?I have been carried to class? vibe. It is not pristine, it is experienced ? like a veteran of the computer lab, quietly judging your modern lack of respect for documentation. Perfect for: Retro-computing enthusiasts and syllabus archaeologists Teachers and collectors who love old technical ephemera Anyone who thinks modern tech culture could do with a little more rigour and fewer buzzwords People who want to see what ?computer science? looked like before it became a lifestyle Buy it for the history. Buy it for the foundations. Buy it because there?s a certain joy in reading about ?computer files? from a time when a file was an event, not a background process. A solid chunk of 1980 instructional seriousness ? slightly battered, still determined to teach you. Seller Inventory # 5836
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