The Most Complex Machine: A Survey of Computers and Computing

Eck, David J.

ISBN 10: 1568810547 / ISBN 13: 9781568810546

Published by A K Peters/CRC Press, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Most Complex Machine: A Survey of Computers and Computing
• Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568810547
• ISBN 13: 9781568810546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.