Invitation to Computer Science: C++ Version, Third Edition

by Judith L. Gersting and G. Michael Schneider

Book Overview

In this best-selling text, Mike Schneider and Judy Gersting unify and lend relevance to the topics of computer science within their proven framework of a six-layer hierarchy of abstractions. The authors begin by showing that computer science is the study of algorithms, which is the central theme of the book, then move up the next five levels of the hierarchy: hardware, virtual machine, software, applications, and ethics. Each layer in the hierarchy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534390978
• ISBN13: 9780534390976
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.2" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

niece condition

the book is in almost new condition and it was at a fraction of the prize of the one in my college. it took a little less than 2 weeks to deliver so you better but it a month before classes start.