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Computer Science: An Overview, 13th Edition
- By Glenn Brookshear, Dennis Brylow
- Published Mar 13, 2018 by Pearson.
About
Features
Hallmark features of this title
- This text follows a bottom-up arrangement of subjects that progresses from the concrete to the abstract, an order that results in a sound pedagogical presentation.
- Ethical and legal aspects of areas such as Internet security, software engineering and database technology bring to light what students should know to be safe and responsible users of technology.
- Uses Python code examples and Python-like pseudocode, due to its wide acceptance in other STEM fields, such as physics and biology, and as the language of choice for computational science applications.
- Each chapter includes a collection of questions called Social Issues that challenge students to think about the relationship between the material in the text and the society in which they live.
Description
- Copyright 2019
- Dimensions: 8" x 10"
- Pages: 736
- Edition: 13th
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-487546-X
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-487546-0
For the Introduction to Computer Science course.
A broad exploration of computer science–with the depth needed to understand concepts
Computer Science: An Overview provides a bottom-up, concrete-to-abstract foundation that students can build upon to see the relevance and interrelationships of future computer science courses. Its comprehensive coverage and clear language are accessible to students from all backgrounds, encouraging a practical and realistic understanding.
More than 1,000 questions and exercises, Chapter Review Problems, and Social Issues questions reinforce core concepts. The 13th Edition continues its focus on Python to provide programming tools for exploration and experimentation. A new full-color design reflects the use of color in most modern programming interfaces to aid the programmer’s understanding of code. Syntax coloring is now used more effectively for clarifying code and pseudocode segments in the text, and many figures and diagrams are now rendered more descriptively.
Sample Content
Table of Contents
* Asterisks indicate suggestions for optional sections.
- Introduction
- 0.1 The Role of Algorithms
- 0.2 The History of Computing
- 0.3 An Outline of Our Study
- 0.4 The Overarching Themes of Computer Science
- Data Storage
- 1.1 Bits and Their Storage
- 1.2 Main Memory
- 1.3 Mass Storage
- 1.4 Representing Information as Bit Patterns
- *1.5 The Binary System
- *1.6 Storing Integers
- *1.7 Storing Fractions
- *1.8 Data and Programming
- *1.9 Data Compression
- *1.10 Communication Errors
- Data Manipulation
- 2.1 Computer Architecture
- 2.2 Machine Language
- 2.3 Program Execution
- *2.4 Arithmetic/Logic Instructions
- *2.5 Communicating with Other Devices
- *2.6 Programming Data Manipulation
- *2.7 Other Architectures
- Operating Systems
- 3.1 The History of Operating Systems
- 3.2 Operating System Architecture
- 3.3 Coordinating the Machines Activities
- *3.4 Handling Competition Among Processes
- 3.5 Security
- Networking and the Internet
- 4.1 Network Fundamentals
- 4.2 The Internet
- 4.3 The World Wide Web
- *4.4 Internet Protocols
- *4.5 Simple Client Server
- 4.6 Cybersecurity
- Algorithms
- 5.1 The Concept of an Algorithm
- 5.2 Algorithm Representation
- 5.3 Algorithm Discovery
- 5.4 Iterative Structures
- 5.5 Recursive Structures
- 5.6 Efficiency and Correctness
- Programming Languages
- 6.1 Historical Perspective
- 6.2 Traditional Programming Concepts
- 6.3 Procedural Units
- 6.4 Language Implementation
- 6.5 Object-Oriented Programming
- *6.6 Programming Concurrent Activities
- *6.7 Declarative Programming
- Software Engineering
- 7.1 The Software Engineering Discipline
- 7.2 The Software Life Cycle
- 7.3 Software Engineering Methodologies
- 7.4 Modularity
- 7.5 Tools of the Trade
- 7.6 Quality Assurance
- 7.7 Documentation
- 7.8 The Human-Machine Interface
- 7.9 Software Ownership and Liability
- Data Abstractions
- 8.1 Basic Data Structures
- 8.2 Related Concepts
- 8.3 Implementing Data Structures
- 8.4 A Short Case Study
- 8.5 Customized Data Types
- 8.6 Classes and Objects
- *8.7 Pointers in Machine Language
- Database Systems
- 9.1 Database Fundamentals
- 9.2 The Relational Model
- *9.3 Object-Oriented Databases
- *9.4 Maintaining Database Integrity
- *9.5 Traditional File Structures
- 9.6 Data Mining
- 9.7 Social Impact of Database Technology
- Computer Graphics
- 10.1 The Scope of Computer Graphics
- 10.2 Overview of 3D Graphics
- 10.3 Modeling
- 10.4 Rendering
- *10.5 Dealing with Global Lighting
- 10.6 Animation
- Artificial Intelligence
- 11.1 Intelligence and Machines
- 11.2 Perception
- 11.3 Reasoning
- 11.4 Additional Areas of Research
- 11.5 Artificial Neural Networks
- 11.6 Robotics
- 11.7 Considering the Consequences
- Theory of Computation
- 12.1 Functions and Their Computation
- 12.2 Turing Machines
- 12.3 Universal Programming Languages
- 12.4 A Noncomputable Function
- 12.5 Complexity of Problems
- *12.6 Public-Key Cryptography
APPENDICES
- A. ASCII
- B. Circuits to Manipulate Twos Complement Representations
- C. Vole: A Simple Machine Language
- D. High-Level Programming Languages
- E. The Equivalence of Iterative and Recursive Structures
- F. Answers to Questions & Exercises