Computers and Information Processing

by Floyd Fuller

Book Overview

This text combines excellent computer concepts coverage with application software tutorials in one bound book. Fourteen highly structured and concise concept chapters offer the optimal number of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877094845
• ISBN13: 9780877094845
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.2" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Interesting and in-depth, great VALUE for money

Although the book might appear to be thick to some, but don't fear. Reading it is a pure pleasure that educates you along the way. It provides tremendous amounts of information about computers and immerses you in their world. Inside you will find that the content is clearly laid out, and easy to comprehend. Chapters are arranged by subject in a very thoughtful way and deal with a wide spectrum of issues pertaining to computers and their role in our lives. Altogether there are 14 Chapters. The book is devided into 5 parts: -Introduction ( Information Processing, Digital World ), -Hardware ( Input Devices and Media, CPU and Memory, Output Devices and Media, Secondary Storage, Telecommunications), -Software and Data Managment ( System Software, Files and Data Bases, Data Managment ), -Systems and Development ( Systems Software, Computer Files and Data Bases, Data Managment ), -Systems and Development (Inforamion Systems, Computers and Problem Solving, Software Developmet and Programming, Developing Information Systems), -Computers and Society ( security, Ethics, Crime, Future ), I would recommend this book to all those interested in computers, both novice as well as to those more advanced and experienced computer users, as that this book will develop along with your knowledge and skills. It introduces you into the world of computers, how they operate, and then progresses to more practical things such as their uses. It then goes to more advance topics such as databases, software development, programiing and security. At the end of the book you will find a section on programming in QuickBasic ( around 150 pages ) and 3 modules on word processing, spreadsheets and data bases. This book provides an indepth account into how computers work, how they are built, their evolution and future decelopment. I applaud "Computers and Information Processing" to anyone who wants to learn about computers, and hope that you will have as much pleasure with this book as I've had.