Computers and data processing.
"This book was designed as a textbook for an introductory course in computers and data processing, but it will also be of interest to anyone who wants to learn about computers. Whether your students are in the course as majors in business or a computer-related field or are there as general educ...
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California :
The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc.,
1982.
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| Colección: | The Benjamin/Cummings Series in Computing and Information Sciences.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface. Part 1. You and computer literacy. Chapter one. The unfinished revolution: the future now. Chapter two. Computer systems overview: hardware, software, and people. Part 2. Hardware. Chapter three. Evolution: from finite to infinite. Chapter four. The central processor: the intelligent machine. Chapter five. Input: what goes in. Chapter six. Output: the human uses of computing. Chapter seven. Storage devices and file processing: facts on file. Part 3. Software. Chapter eight. Beginning programming: getting your feet wet. Chapter nine. Systems analysis and design: the thrust of change. Chapter ten. Languages: communicating with the computer. Chapter eleven. Structured program design: up from "spaghetti code". Chapter twelve. Operating systems: The traffic cop. Part 4. The new story of computing. Chapter thirteen. The computer industry: the promises of technology. Chapter fourteen. Personal computers: a computer of your own. Chapter fifteen. Data communications systems: the wired world. Chapter sixteen. Management information systems and data base systems: share and share alike. Part 5. Computers and us. Chapter seventeen. Jobs and careers: Where do you go from here? Chapter eighteen. Security and privacy: keeping computers friendly. Chapter nineteen. Computers and society: the next twenty years. Appendix A: A course of programming in BASIC. Appendix B: Number Systems. Notes. Credits and acknowledgments. Glossary/Index.