Aimed at first course computer science students, this text is intended to complement the Experiments in Computing laboratory manuals by the same authors. The labs may be used in conjunction with any Pascal text, but this book is constructed around the laboratories in Experiments in Computing. It provides an overview of typical computer science concepts, including context and background for the lab experiments. It is considerably shorter than most standard texts, shifting the focus from a passive to an active computer science learning experience.

Exploring the Science of Computing

Computers & Technology

Abernethy, Kenneth

Abernethy, Ken

Abernathy, Kenneth

Programming Languages

Wadsworth Publishing Company

This text is the Beta Edition of a non-majors' introduction to computing that addresses a wide variety of computing concepts and applications, including multimedia and the Internet. This book breaks new ground for the course, in that it reflects the authors' belief that students need to know how to work with digital data and media types (such as text, numbers, graphics, images, sounds, and video, all of which are captured, created, edited and manipulated in a digital environment) and the communications and publishing capabilities of the Internet. The book is directly supported by a World Wide Web site providing more expanded discussions of concepts, tutorials, PowerPoint multimedia presentations, digital data files for browsing and downloading, and links to additional documents and resources.

Exploring the Digital Domain: An Introduction to Computing with Multimedia and Networking, Beta Edition

Allen, J. Thomas

Certification

Cengage Learning'

The book focuses on digital media rather than the customary survey of applications software designed to process these media. In addition to teaching basic computer skills, the authors promote information fluency in which readers gain an understanding of the foundational concepts on which the technology is derived and develop higher-level intellectual capabilities for applying the technology. In the area of data communications and networks, the book has new material on DSL, cable (CATV) modems, and wireless LAN technologies. The book integrates the TCP/IP protocol model with the treatment of client/server applications. New chapters on data security and emerging technologies have been added. Topics include bioinformatics, nanotechnology, quantum computing, and intelligent software agents.

Exploring the Digital Domain: An Introduction to Computers and Information Fluency, Second Edition

Business & Money

Thomson Learning, Inc.

Ken Abernethy and Tom Allen take an entirely fresh look at the introductory computing course, and teach the skills readers need to understand, create, work and communicate using digital media and networks. While most computer users are proficient in word processing, the worlds of image processing, digital sound, multimedia presentations, know-bots, MUDs, and MOOs are undiscovered territory for many. To be able to use these new and interesting capabilities, computer users must achieve a new standard of computer literacy. The computer literacy standard presented in this book is more dynamic and more conceptual than those of the past. The authors show how the computer and its associated devices and networks - or the digital domain - provides a new and fundamental communications paradigm for the twenty-first century.

Exploring the Digital Domain: An Introduction to Computing with Multimedia and Networking

PWS Pub. Co.

This book presents a set of practical tools and techniques to improve an organization's ability to discover and articulate IT project requirements. Because requirements drive all other aspects of an IT project, articulating robust reliable requirements is an essential success factor for any IT organization. If project requirements are incorrect, ambiguous, or incomplete, even perfectly executed design and implementation processes will not yield results that meet customer expectations. When this happens, resources are wasted and customer relationships are seriously damaged. This book explores some of the underlying reasons why meeting the challenge of articulating correct, unambiguous, and complete IT project requirements presents so many difficulties for IT organizations, and introduces some fundamental principles of requirements management that can help organizations overcome these difficulties. More specifically, an array of practical tools and techniques for requirements discovery and articulation are explained, with examples provided demonstrating how these tools and techniques can make the requirements discovery process more reliable and robust.

Brief Guide to Requirements: Brief Guide Series for the IT Professional, Vol. 2

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This book presents a set of practical tools and techniques to improve an IT organization's ability to achieve reliable quality in the development of IT products and services. Because quality derives from the extent to which a work product satisfies the customer’s requirements, we must build this perspective into the development process itself. Though testing is an important technique in verifying the quality of a product or service, it cannot be relied on to create quality. Instead, we must integrate effective validation and verification processes throughout the development life cycle. The ideas presented in this book offer IT professionals the underlying concepts necessary to understand the essentials features of effective validation and verification and to help them utilize this knowledge to master important best-practice tools and techniques for ensuring the robustness of validation and verification processes within the work they do.

Brief Guide to Quality Assurance: Brief Guide Series for the IT Professional, Vol. 5

The initiating phase of an IT project requires careful attention to several crucial elements of the project planning process. Of course, requirements drive the entire development effort of an IT project, and hence deriving a set of correct, unambiguous, and complete IT project requirements is imperative. But there are three other important elements that also have direct impact on a project’s success, namely assumptions, constraints, and risks. Each of these elements must be taken into account in a robust project plan. Assumptions are things that we believe to be true and which we therefore build into the project plan. Constraints are things that we know to be true and which must be accounted for in the plan so that we can work around them. And risks are factors that we are aware of but whose occurrence is uncertain. These factors may or may not happen, but a good project plan will be include accommodations for the most important of these, so that if they do in fact occur their  impact on the project’s schedule and budget will as minimal as possible. This book explores the definitions of these various elements, and how they should be included in the overall project plan. More specifically, practical tools and techniques are offered for identifying, assessing, and prioritizing such factors, with examples provided demonstrating how these tools and techniques can help make the project planning process more reliable and robust.

Brief Guide to Assumptions, Constraints, and Risks: Brief Guide Series for the IT Professional, Vol. 3

This book provides a brief guide to the fundamental concepts of effective organizational leadership. The ideas presented in this book offer leaders the concepts, tools, and techniques that have proved essential for establishing a compelling vision for the future of the organization and then guiding strategy and organizational culture to enable the achievement of that vision. In addition to exploring fundamental underlying concepts of the components of a compelling vision, effective strategies, and creating and nurturing an enabling culture, this book will provide practical techniques and tips for developing the kind of leadership that enables an organization to apply these concepts in support of the ongoing success of the organization. Topics covered include: approaching change as opportunity; searching for the right kind of change for the organization; developing a compelling vision for the organization based on deep knowledge of the organization, understanding of the capabilities of the organization, and experience in leading change; recognizing and employing the essential characteristics of successful strategies; creating and nurturing a positive and enabling organizational culture.

Brief Guide to Leadership: Leading Change, Strategy, and Culture

Programming

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