Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 192 pages
- Published by: Made Simple April 12, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0767917073
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0767917070
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Book Dimensions:
10 x 7.6 x 0.5 inches
- Weighs: 15.2 ounces
Reader Reviews
Spraul gives a quick and easy introduction to explaining this mysterious thing call computer science. He explains the common Neumann architecture of a single CPU computer. Something which has essentially remained unchanged since the Manhattan Project. Then he talks about the software that runs on this hardware. From this model of software running on 1 computer, the discussion segues naturally into a network of such machines. Wherein the Internet appears. And its common version, the Web, which many users casually and wrongly assume to be synonymous with it. There is little specialised hardware knowledge or maths required for the book. Indeed, the Boolean logic is shown to be utterly simple. Though, within the constraints of his presentation, the reader is not shown enough to appreciate that from the Boolean logic, one can build up an entire edifice of digital maths. [It's properly the subject of a more advanced text.]
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