Study Guide to Accompany Computers Data and Processing
Published on 10. May 2014
256 pages
978-1-4832-6438-7 (ISBN)
Description
Study Guide to Accompany Computer and Data Processing provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of computers and computer technology. This book presents the key benefits of using computers. Organized into five parts encompassing 19 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the evolution of modern computing systems from the earliest mechanical calculating devices to microchips. This text then introduces computer hardware and describes the processor. Other chapters describe how microprocessors are made and describe the physical operation of computers. This book discusses as well how computers present their outputs and explains the storage and retrieval of massive amounts of computer-accessible information from secondary storage devices. The final chapter discusses the use of computers in the transportation systems and the ways in which they make possible other innovations in transportation. This book is a valuable resource for computer scientists, systems analysts, computer programmers, mathematicians, historians, computer specialists, and students.
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Harvey M. Deitel | Barbara Deitel
Computers and Data Processing: Study Gde
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07/1985
Academic Press
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¿PrefacePart One: Introduction 1. The Information Revolution 2. The Evolution of ComputersPart Two: Hardware 3. The Processor 4. Input: Gateway to the Computer 5. Output: Getting Results from the Computer 6. Secondary Storage 7. Data CommunicationsPart Three: Software 8. Structured Programming 9. Programming Languages 10. Structured Systems Analysis and Design; Systems Acquisition 11. Database Management Systems, Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems 12. Operating SystemsPart Four: Computers in Business 13. Personal Computing 14. Office Automation 15. Electronic Funds Transfer Systems, Security, Privacy, and Computer CrimePart Five: Computers in Society 16. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence 17. Computers and Medicine 18. Computers and the Handicapped 19. Computers and Transportation
