Discovering Computers, Fundamentals: Your Interactive Guide to the Digital World

by Misty E. Vermaat, Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman

Book Overview

Covering the same breadth, but with less depth as Discovering Computers 2006: Complete, this book is ideal for a short course on computer concepts or in a course that teaches computer concepts along... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1111530459
• ISBN13: 9781111530457
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Great

I needed this book for a college class and even though the condition was marked as only good I got the book in excellent condition, I would have said like new. It has very useful info in it, and it doesn't have very much difference from the new edition, just a few different pictures.

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Excellent book I used it in a college class and liked it. It gives a little information about a lot of topics. A+ Book

well suited for a classroom text

The book is well suited for a reader who has no background in computing and wants to remedy that deficiency. Unlike some other books, this does not start with the description of what a single computer is. Instead, it starts at the network level, by explaining in simple terms the Internet and the World Wide Web. It shows why the two are different. Whereas the reader might well regard these as synonymous, she now learns that the Internet in fact predates the Web by over 20 years. This putting of the Internet and Web first in the book is telling. It acknowledges that for many people, the computer exists primarily to access the network. But of course, the book should, and it does, go on to explain the hardware and software of a computer. The hardware is the classic single CPU Neumann design. The software is shown to be the operating system and applications that run on it. The book also contains numerous exercises that help the reader assimilate the ideas in the text.