Computing for Ordinary Mortals 【電子書籍】[ Robert St. Amant ]

＜p＞Computing isn't only (or even mostly) about hardware and software; it's also about the ideas behind the technology. In ＜em＞Computing for Ordinary Mortals＜/em＞, computer scientist Robert St. Amant explains this "＜em＞really＜/em＞ interesting part" of computing, introducing basic computing concepts and strategies in a way that readers without a technical background can understand and appreciate. Each of the chapters illustrates ideas from a different area of computing, and together they provide important insights into what drives the field as a whole. St. Amant starts off with an overview of basic concepts as well as a brief history of the earliest computers, and then he traces two different threads through the fabric of computing. One thread is practical, illuminating the architecture of a computer and showing how this architecture makes computation efficient. St. Amant shows us how to write down instructions so that a computer can accomplish specific tasks (programming), how the compu．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る