What Computing Is All About

Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

ISBN 10: 146127639X / ISBN 13: 9781461276395

Published by Springer New York, Springer US Sep 2011, 2011

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Neuware -I have always been fascinated with engineering. From Roman bridges and jumbo jets to steam engines and CD players, it is the privilege of the en gineer to combine scientific insights and technical possibilities into useful and elegant products. Engineers get a great deal of satisfaction from the usefulness and beauty of their designs. Some of these designs have a major impact on our daily lives, others enable further scientific insights or shift limits of technology. The successful engineer is familiar with the scientific basis of the field and the technology of the components, and has an eye for the envisioned applications. For example, to build an airplane, one had better understand the physics of motion, the structural properties of alu minum, and the size of passengers. And the physics of motion requires a mastery of mathematics, in particular calculus. Computers are a marvel of modern engineering. They come in a wide variety and their range of applications seems endless. One of the charac teristics that makes computers different from other engineering products is their programmability. Dishwashers have some limited programming capa is not the key part of the device. Their essential part is some bility, but it enclosed space where the dishes are stored and flushed with hot water. Computers are embedded in many different environments, but in their case the programming capability is the essential part. All computers are programmed in more or less the same way.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 496 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Computing Is All About
• Publisher: Springer New York, Springer US Sep 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 146127639X
• ISBN 13: 9781461276395
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 27D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 744 grams

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Synopsis

This book will be for a first or second year undergraduate course in computer science. Assuming that a student already has had one course in programming, the text introduces various topics of computer science, in a way that shows their application and promotes real interest.