This work offers a survey of computer science, covering many topics and equipping the reader with an understanding of the scope of the science as well as the terminology in the field. Topics include computer architecture, operating systems, algorithm development, programming languages and paradigms, software engineering, data structures, file computation and complexity theory. This edition contains new sections on: the growing importance of object-oriented methodologies in programming and database design; parallel programming; network protocols; and software engineering. Throughout, additional material is also included relating topics in computer science to ethical, social and legal issues.
- ISBN10 0805309039
- ISBN13 9780805309034
- Publish Date 1 December 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co.,Subs. of Addison Wesley Longman,US
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 550
- Language English