Invitation to Computer Science

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In this best-selling text, Mike Schneider and Judy Gersting unify and lend relevance to the topics of computer science within their proven framework of a six-layer hierarchy of abstractions. The authors begin by showing that computer science is the study of algorithms, which is the central theme of the book, then move up the next five levels of the hierarchy: hardware, virtual machine, software, applications, and ethics.

Benefits:

• New full color design enhances visual learning.
• Prepares students for an introductory programming course through two chapters on Java.
• "Challenge Problems" can be used for longer assignments.
• Supplemental lab manual contains 23 laboratory projects.