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Table of Contents

Introduction

0.1 The Role of Algorithms

0.2 The Origins of Computing Machines

0.3 The Science of Algorithms

0.4 Abstraction

0.5 An Outline of Our Study

0.6 Social Repercussions

 

Chapter 1  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 Compression

1.9 Communication Errors

 

Chapter 2  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 Other Architectures

 

Chapter 3  Operating Systems

3.1 The History of Operating Systems

3.2 Operating System Architecture

3.3 Coordinating the Machine’s Activities

3.4 Handling Competition Among Processes

3.5 Security

 

Chapter 4  Networking and the Internet

4.1 Network Fundamentals

4.2 The Internet

4.3 The World Wide Web

4.4 Internet Protocols

4.5 Security

 

Chapter 5  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

 


 

Chapter 6  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

 

Chapter 7  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 Testing

7.7 Documentation

7.8 Software Ownership and Liability

 

Chapter 8  Data Abstractions

8.1 Data Structure Fundamentals

8.2 Implementing Data Structures

8.3 A Short Case Study

8.4 Customized Data Types

8.5 Classes and Objects

8.6 Pointers in Machine Language

 

Chapter 9  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

 

Chapter 10  Artificial Intelligence

10.1 Intelligence and Machines

10.2 Perception

10.3 Reasoning

10.4 Additional Areas of Research

10.5 Artificial Neural Networks

10.6 Robotics

10.7 Considering the Consequences

 

Chapter 11  Theory of Computation

11.1 Functions and Their Computation

11.2 Turing Machines

11.3 Universal Programming Languages

11.4 A Noncomputable Function

11.5 Complexity of Problems

11.6 Public-Key Cryptography

 

Appendixes

A ASCII

B Circuits to Manipulate Two's Complement Representations

C A Simple Machine Language

D High-Level Language Program Examples

E The Equivalence of Iterative and Recursive Structures

F Answers to Questions & Exercises

 

Index

 

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