Getting Started With Computers

Getting Started with Computers

Dryden's Getting Started series offers instruction in basic computer literacy combined with practical Web-based technologies. Designed with today's student in mind, these four-color, heavily illustrated texts are concise and readable. Clear explanations, accompanied by large, easy-to-read screen captures, are followed by guided exercises and projects. Students learn by doing in real-world scenarios and case studies. Getting started has never been so easy!

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, second edition

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes throughout the text. There are new implementations of most of the major programming systems in the book, including the interpreters and compilers, and the authors have incorporated many small changes that reflect their experience teaching the course at MIT since the first edition was published. A new theme has been introduced that emphasizes the central role played by different approaches to dealing with time in computational models: objects with state, concurrent programming, functional programming and lazy evaluation, and nondeterministic programming. There are new example sections on higher-order procedures in graphics and on applications of stream processing in numerical programming, and many new exercises. In addition, all the programs have been reworked to run in any Scheme implementation that adheres to the IEEE standard.

Getting Started with Your Computer and the Windows XP Environment