Schaum's Outline of Introduction to Computer Science
by Mata-toledo, Ramón A.; Cushman, Pauline, Ph.D.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-09-03
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
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Summary
Illustrates key computing concepts using examples in the most popular programming languages. This is an essential guide for the hundreds of thousands of students studying Introduction to Computer Science or Introduction to Programming, presenting the basic concepts of computerscience and illlustrating them with examples in C/C++, and Java. More than 285,000 college majors and 11,000 high school Advanced Placement candidates are enrolled in required Computing Science courses. Explains algorithm development and data abstraction. Supplements leading computer science textbooks.
Table of Contents
| Basic Concepts of Computers | p. 1 |
| Computer Structures | p. 1 |
| Bus Structure | p. 5 |
| Basic Operation of the Computer | p. 5 |
| Representation of Data in Memory | p. 7 |
| Conversion Between the Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal Systems | p. 10 |
| Rules for Forming Numbers in Any System | p. 12 |
| Arithmetic Operations in the Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal Systems | p. 13 |
| Representing Numbers in a Computer | p. 17 |
| Program Planning and Design | p. 46 |
| Programming | p. 46 |
| Problem Solving | p. 46 |
| Algorithms | p. 47 |
| Program Coding and Simple Input/Output | p. 63 |
| Programming Languages | p. 63 |
| Variables and Constants | p. 65 |
| Assignment Statements | p. 67 |
| Arithmetic Expressions and Operator Precedence | p. 68 |
| Comment Statements | p. 70 |
| Simple Input/Output | p. 70 |
| Writing a Complete Program | p. 79 |
| Control Structures and Program Writing | p. 89 |
| Boolean Expressions | p. 89 |
| Control Structures--Definitions | p. 94 |
| Selection | p. 94 |
| Repetition | p. 100 |
| Functions and Subroutines | p. 117 |
| Functions | p. 117 |
| Subroutines | p. 122 |
| Scope and Lifetime of Identifiers | p. 123 |
| Parameter-Passing Mechanisms | p. 129 |
| Arrays and Strings | p. 155 |
| Introduction to Arrays | p. 155 |
| Arrays in Visual Basic | p. 158 |
| Arrays in C/C++ and Java | p. 162 |
| Searching | p. 171 |
| Sorting | p. 174 |
| Data Files | p. 193 |
| Introduction | p. 193 |
| Data Terminology | p. 194 |
| File Organization | p. 195 |
| Text and Binary Files | p. 195 |
| Opening and Closing Files | p. 195 |
| Object-Oriented Programming | p. 228 |
| Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming | p. 228 |
| Inheritance and Data Abstraction | p. 231 |
| Advantages of Object-Oriented Programming | p. 231 |
| Object-Oriented Environment in Visual Basic | p. 232 |
| Classes and Inheritance in C++ | p. 233 |
| Classes and Inheritance in Java | p. 240 |
| Data Structures | p. 261 |
| Introduction to Data Structures | p. 261 |
| Linked Lists | p. 261 |
| Stacks | p. 271 |
| Queues | p. 274 |
| The Translation Process | p. 290 |
| Index | p. 295 |
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