Computer Science: An Overview, Global Edition

* Asterisks indicate suggestions for optional sections.



0. Introduction

0.1 The Role of Algorithms

0.2 The History of Computing

0.3 An Outline of Our Study

0.4 The Overarching Themes of Computer Science



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 and Programming

*1.9 Data Compression

*1.10 Communication Errors



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 Programming Data Manipulation

*2.7 Other Architectures



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



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 Simple Client Server

4.6 Cybersecurity



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



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



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 Quality Assurance

7.7 Documentation

7.8 The Human-Machine Interface

7.9 Software Ownership and Liability



8. Data Abstractions

8.1 Basic Data Structures

8.2 Related Concepts

8.3 Implementing Data Structures

8.4 A Short Case Study

8.5 Customized Data Types

8.6 Classes and Objects

*8.7 Pointers in Machine Language



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



10. Computer Graphics

10.1 The Scope of Computer Graphics

10.2 Overview of 3D Graphics

10.3 Modeling

10.4 Rendering

*10.5 Dealing with Global Lighting

10.6 Animation



11. Artificial Intelligence

11.1 Intelligence and Machines

11.2 Perception

11.3 Reasoning

11.4 Additional Areas of Research

11.5 Artificial Neural Networks

11.6 Robotics

11.7 Considering the Consequences



12. Theory of Computation

12.1 Functions and Their Computation

12.2 Turing Machines

12.3 Universal Programming Languages

12.4 A Noncomputable Function

12.5 Complexity of Problems

*12.6 Public-Key Cryptography



Appendixes:

A. ASCII

B. Circuits to Manipulate Two's Complement Representations

C. Vole: A Simple Machine Language

D. High-Level Programming Languages

E. The Equivalence of Iterative and Recursive Structures

F. Answers to Questions & Exercises



Index