Computer Culture (4th Edition) (4th Edition)

Author: Parsons
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This book is not an ordinary introduction to computer science textbook. It employs advanced methods and technologies to explain fundamental computer knowledge, with a wide scope, rich content, and unique approach—truly breathtaking and worthy of being called an encyclopedia of computer basics. Accompanying the book is a multimedia CD-ROM that is nothing short of spectacular, featuring an interactive English version of the original book, a question bank, and a link to the website www.cciw.com/np4, specifically designed for this book. The website also provides abundant information. The CD-ROM includes not only videos, animations, interactive glossaries, and more, but even a scoring record. This allows students to immediately assess their learning progress, while teachers can quickly gauge students' performance. Such a vivid learning method feels like a refreshing breeze—how could one forget the content of this book? Studying this book with the CD-ROM not only enhances your English proficiency but also achieves two goals at once. The book provides a detailed introduction to relevant knowledge in the field of computer science, making it an invaluable resource for learning computer science and understanding the history of computer development. The book is divided into 15 chapters, covering fundamental computer concepts, computer system basics, documents, spreadsheets, and databases, computer files and database storage, computer architecture, the computer market, local area networks and email, the Internet, data security, data representation, communication systems, information systems, and computer programming. Each chapter is accompanied by quizzes, learning tips, experiments, and related information networks, along with the CD-ROM. This book can be used as an introductory textbook for computer science in higher education institutions and as a reference for teachers, as well as for reference by computer enthusiasts.