Introductory Computer Science: Bits of Theory, Bytes of Practice

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Computer Science Press, 1996 - Computers - 368 pages
This introductory text provides both a foundation in a popular programming language (Turbo Pascal) and an introduction to the principles and applications of the field. In addition to providing an overview of computer science via programming, this book stresses applications that demonstrate computers' many roles in our lives and concepts that shape the design of new software and hardware.

About the author (1996)

Recreations, his column which appeared in Scientific American for more than eight years. He has been an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada since 1968, and is president of Turing Omnibus, Inc. Among his many books on computer science, science and mathematics are Two Hundred Percent of Nothing (1993), an effort to expose abuses of math and statistics in everyday life and its companion work, Yes, We Have No Neutrons (1997). Dewdney is also interested in growing and distributing rare native trees, as manifested in his book, Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place (1998). Hungry Hollow examines the elements of a natural habitat in both time and space.

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