The Most Complex Machine: A Survey of Computers and Computing
Language: English
Published by A K Peters/CRC Press, 2000
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- Title
- The Most Complex Machine: A Survey of Computers and Computing
- Author
- David J. Eck
- Publisher
- A K Peters/CRC Press
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1568811284
- ISBN 13
- 9781568811284
- Item weight
- 1.35 pounds
This introduction to computers presents the fundamental ideas and principles on which modern computers are built. While used as a text for courses in computer appreciation as well as introductions to computer science, the book has found a wide audience among computer users who wish to understand the basis of the machines that form and transform our society.
What Computers Do • Teaching Silicon to Compute • Building a Computer •†Theoretical Computers • Real Computers • Programming • Subroutines and Recursion • Real Programming Languages • Applications • Cooperating Computers • Graphics • Artificial Intelligence • Answers • The text is supplemented by a web site that gives access to other problems and projects.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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