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.

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