The How Computers Work, Interactive Web Version is an enhanced digital copy of the How Computers Work, Tenth Edition print book, which can be accessed via a web browser. It includes many new and exciting features that take the one-of-a-kind How Computers Work print book experience to the next level. Here's a look at just a few of the new features you'll find in the Interactive Web Version:
Designed for the Web-This new digital edition of How Computers Work is built from the ground up to work in today's most popular web browsers. Whether you use Windows, Mac, or a tablet, you'll find a viewing experience that works for you.
Animations-See first-hand how morphing software morphs a photo or how video compression and resolution change the quality of a digital video. Watch as an interactive firewall blocks dangerous data, while letting safe packets through. Have you ever wondered just how a transistor physically controls the flow of electrons to turn itself on and off? You'll see it in action here!
Interactive Elements-Directly interact with more than a dozen of the topics covered in this book. Drag data into a processor to see how it divides up a work load and computes an answer. Or use a virtual laser to photoetch a micochip. You'll even control the flow of light through an LCD monitor as you learn how it generates an image!
How Computers Work, Tenth Edition is your full-color, fully-illustrated guide to your whole modern world of computing: your PC, your notebook, your tablet, your smartphone, all of it! With nearly 2 million copies sold, this is one of the world's most popular computer books: long admired for Tim Downs' exquisitely detailed illustrations, and Ron White's brilliance in simplifying complex technological concepts so everyone can understand.
No other book on the planet covers everything you'll find here, and none rival it in elegance or flair. Now, White and Downs have completely updated their legendary classic for today's computing environment, and today's technologies. Their new Tenth Edition takes you under the hood with:
iPads and iPhones
Android tablets and smartphones
eReaders like Kindle, including eInk technology
Windows 8
Touchscreens, LEDs, and LCDs
New flash memory and low power chips
Twitter, Facebook, and Skype
Fiber Internet
Texting
Multiplayer gaming, and much more
How Computers Work, Tenth Edition covers all the ways you use your technology now: from how your browser streams video to how game consoles generate 3D worlds. It demystifies everything from the Internet and your home network to spyware and security software. A marvel in book publishing for two decades, there's never been anything like it-and it's now better than ever!
- ISBN10 0133096785
- ISBN13 9780133096781
- Publish Date 28 March 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Addison Wesley
- Edition 10th edition
- Format eBook
- Pages 400
- Language English