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Now in its eighth edition, this book continues to provide a comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to the dynamic field of computer science using a breadth-first approach.
The table of contents and the text itself have been revised and expanded to reflect changes in the field, including the trend toward using Web and Internet Technology, the evolution of Objects, and the important growth in the field of databases. Specifically, chapter three from the previous edition has been expanded into two chapters. Chapter three will now only cover Operating Systems and the new chapter four will focus on Networks and the Internet.
Anyone interested in gaining a thorough introduction to Computer Science.
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For Computer Science Beginners.......2007-05-27
This is a very good introductory survey course of Computer Science provided you're planning to major in CS. The reason I've rated the book at only 3 stars out of 5 is solely because of the first sentence in the Audience section of the Preface on page vii:
"I wrote this text for students of computer science as well as students from other disciplines."
That last clause (saying the book is also for non-CS types) is the killer. Basically, the book's level of detail far exceeds anything that any non-CS person would be willing to put up with. Mitigating that, the Organization section of the Preface on page viii lists those sections that non-CS students should read. The Table of Contents also has asterisks indicating suggestions for optional sections (though there's no indication in the actual text noting the optional nature of those sections). Still, overall, it feels like the author uses too technical a vocabulary for non-CS types even in those remaining sections.
Just to emphasize, this book is really for beginners in Computer Science. It's a survey book designed not to teach the material in depth, but to give the student enough knowledge of the material to wrap later courses around. But, that leads to another problem with the book. The book is written for someone with no knowledge of computers, BUT, AT THE SAME TIME, assumes that person is fairly familiar with the topic. In other words, if you don't know anything about computers, you'll soon be wallowing in an awful lot of technical concepts and terms and will probably get confused. On the other hand, if you're already somewhat familiar with the topic, the basic nature of the material will probably bore you. Sort of a Catch-22.
Still, if a person is just starting a Computer Science degree, this is probably a 4 star out of 5 book. For non-CSers, it would be a problem. For them, I'd recommend The Analytical Engine: An Introduction to Computer Science Using the Internet, Second Edition: An Introduction to Computer Science Using the Internet (with CD-ROM).
For the reviewer that has trouble comprehending..........2006-06-10
If one can't understand the style of writing maybe one should not be in a CS 100 level course or even close to the college level! If anything, as reviewed earlier, I found this style made it easier to read a CS text... as a lot of the texts are just too technical; but rightfully so. This text was a relief from the standard curriculum required reading. You think this is bad? Try an English Comp reading essay or assignment. CS needs more of this if the discipline expects to recruit a wider spectrum of students, as science and engineering is already scarce with students as it is. Bottom line, if you're used to the technical reading of the CS curriculum, this book will serve as a reading relief as it is a fast and EASY read. As another reviewer stated, one weekend and this book is finished. If your trouble with reading comprehension is severe enough you should not be reading CS material to begin with - take a course in English and read some extra-curricula novels to build up reading skills first, like fiction.
Very Nice Overview.......2006-06-04
After finishing a first year sequence in CS I felt like I had accomplished a lot.. yet something was missing and I didn't know what. Before this past year I had virtually no real CS exposure and was thrown into the curriculum and was practically forced to progress at their speed and rate. Once the spring semester was over I immediately began to read this book and found it to be a very enjoyable read. It's so broad and easy to absorb that out of its eleven chapters I would complete two or three chapters in one sitting. I found that it really filled in holes left having gone from no experience in CS to finishing a first year University level curriculum. For a complete newbie, some concepts may be out of range but I don't think that should deter you. For someone like me having at least a years experience in CS I found it be a nice supplement to what I already know and a nice reinforcer on subjects I needed review as well as small introductions to material I may have not seen or looked into before. Definately keeping it in the personal library.
Great Book!! .......2006-05-23
I'm getting my B.S this semester from the College of Computer and Information Sciences. I ordered this book last week, and I definitely recommend it to any Computer Science graduate preparing for a job interview, you can review all the basics you studied in college on a weekend !!
"An Overview!!!!!!!!".......2005-03-13
First, some quick advice to those who found the book too basic or general: read the title if you can't make it to page one of the preface! This book is an overview of computer science. You can't expect it to be "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" + "Introduction to Algorithms, 2nd ed" + "Principles of Compiler Design" + "C Primer Plus", etc. . . If you're looking for that kind of topic depth refer to books that specialize in certain topics. If the book is too basic for you then you simply shouldn't be reading it. I don't think that's any reason to slam it though.
As for the intended audience (i.e. true computer newbies) this is your starting point. I haven't read the 8th edition and am not sure how the 7th might be improved upon other than perhaps a little more depth in the database section. This book will not teach you how to program in C, how to build a compiler or how to perform a SQL query. It will tell you what you need to know to move onto these and other computer science areas sensibly as well as point you toward the best sources of topical info (i.e. the golden books of computer science) for further study should you wish to make a career of it. This study approach is truly advantageous because you avoid basic computer science knowledge gaps and start with a better framework for topical studies and specilization. If you take the other route (e.g. grab a "learn to program in 10 minutes" book and just 'go at it') you stand to miss details that will come back to haunt you later in your career as you make mistakes yet are uncertain where your knowledge gaps lie.
MIT Comp Sci students typically skip this course and begin with the more technical "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"- truly a great place to start. For those of you who haven't been immersed in computers for the last half of your lives, this book is your stepping stone, a great foundation and a very enjoyable read. My advice is to start with this book then use its references to explore the computer science topics (i.e. languages, architecture, A.I., etc.) that interest you. You'll start on much more solid ground than those who just 'jump on in' and keep going until they (and their programs) crash.
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This book is a comprehensive yet concise overview of quantum information science, which is a rapidly developing area of interdisciplinary investigation that now plays a significant role in physics, information technology and engineering. The most well-known applications of quantum information science are quantum key distribution and quantum computation. This book is a handy reference for practitioners and students covering foundational issues as well as these and other applications. It contains more than 25 illustrations that encapsulate essential ideas and fundamental constructs. Foreword by Prof. Tommaso Toffoli.
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An overview indeed........2006-12-09
Since this new field of quantum information is rapidly maturing, there currently exist many excellent textbooks from which to choose from in order to learn basic ideas and acquire technical tools. This book has a different aim, as suggested by its name and as eloquently introduced in the foreword by Prof. Tommaso Toffoli, "In one word, this is a 'responsible' book, the rest is commentary."
As a third year graduate student myself with eight months of active research in the field, the value of this text for me was that it clearly tied together the most important ideas from each subfield of quantum information. The reader is unburdened by pages and pages of proofs in the body of the text. For that, there's a 477 item bibliography at the end that guides the reader to the original source. [...]
Not having proofs does not imply lack of depth, but leaves room for insightful commentary and interesting historical tidbits (page 52 footnote: "...(John) Bell had himself officially listed as a 'quantum engineer' in the CERN personnel directory.") In addition to the articulate running commentary, it's very important to note that there exists enough material that this book could also be used as a reference.
This book should be required reading for any working physicist within the field, as well as those in related fields with familiarity of quantum mechanics. Anyone without formal training in quantum mechanics could still benefit by skipping the points not dealing directly with the formalism, especially in the introductions to the chapters and sections.
Overall, a coherent and very useful book.
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In this book, Peter Herzum and Oliver Sims present a complete component based strategy, the business component approach, that applies and extends component thinking to all aspects of the software life cycle for enterprise systems. The approach includes a conceptual framework that brings components into the world of scalable systems, and outlines the different component granularities.
It also includes a methodology that goes beyond current object-oriented practices to provide the concepts required to meet the real challenges of component-based development. Using their business component approach, the authors then provide a blueprint for a business component factory--a development capability that can produce software with the quality, speed, and flexibility needed to match changing business needs. Sprinkled with guidelines, tips, and architectural patterns, this book fully prepares you for the approaching component revolution.
Praise for Business Component Factory
". . . this book should be very useful for anyone considering the daunting task of adopting component software on an enterprise scale."-Clemens Szyperski (Microsoft Research), Author of the award-winning book, Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
"Herzum and Sims do an admirable job of differentiating the different component concepts, allowing this clearly written book to focus on the construction of business systems by non-software practitioners, out of business component parts developed separately (and perhaps for a commodity component marketplace). This is the future of software systems, and this book is a practical, giant step in that direction."-Richard Mark Soley, PhD,Chairman and CEO, OMG
"Finally, a book that takes you from component design all the way down to the middleware on which they are deployed. ItÕs an important contribution to the nascent server-side component discipline written by practitioners for practitioners."-Robert Orfali, Author of Client/Server Survival Guide, Third Edition and Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA, Second Edition (both from Wiley)
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Good information, but not all that new........2001-06-25
One of the things I've noticed over the years is that many books on computer - related topics tend to recycle a lot of concepts; it sometimes makes me wonder if there is ever anything new in the world of software engineering. For example, for a while now, we've been reading a lot of philosophy and techniques about object-oriented programming. Good stuff, but not all that different from what good designers and programmers were already doing years before. Well, in this book the "objects" get bigger, and they're described with different words. Something about this recycling process which is a particular irritant to me is that the people who write these books seem to feel the need to invent new words (or assign new meanings to old words). I've always thought that the purpose of language is to communicate -- reassigning word meanings is not something I find helpful. Who, for example, ever heard of "process management architecture"?
Much of the material in this book is stuff you've seen before -- the words are different or they're used with different meanings or in new contexts -- but a lot of the concepts are familiar. The book does expand its scope somewhat to cover much more of the "development process", resulting in more of a mix of technical and process information than is typical. This is good, as all too often we tend to separate the technology from the process.
Bottom line: Useful information. Nothing particularly new or revolutionary. Could have been a couple of hundred pages shorter. I frequently found myself needing to re-read something or refer to the glossary to re-discover a definition.
Full lifecycle view, business advatage to large grain CBD.......2001-05-15
Herzum and Sims have taken a brave approach to components, emphasizing the view of components through the development lifecycle, where the same component exists from requirements through design to implementation, with only a different view on it. They do a good job of completing the lifecycle with project management aspects of component development as well.
The book seems high level, but they enter into a lot of technical detail as well, while not getting involved in a specific technology. The book is used by me as a textbook for graduate students, as it covers all aspects in detail but generically.
The advantage of the book is the way in which components are defined. Business Components are large grained, made up of many parts which they define in layers. This leads to a wider view of the concept, and leads to a re-organization of the development process.
The book is structured around an architecture for development, which establishes a production-line approach. This ensures the component concept is bought into throughout the organization.
This is the only book to focus on large grained components, with a pure business advantage, but explained technically. This is and is not a how to book. It is a roadmap for what to do and how to arrange it, but not the specific technology to use.
There is a lot of detail in this thick book, but it is easy to read. Very unique approach, and the only book describing aspects you will not learn elsewhere. Other books only describe the overall concept. This one tells you exactly how to fit it into your organization, down to how to structure teams! The book is very comprehansive, and really does follow the development lifecycle. You will gain knowledge of : components on a business level, a new lifecycle for development that is very tailored to components in business, techniques for developing systems, from individual components to integrating federations of components form third parties, all the other aspects thinner books leave out.
Dispelling Myths, Doing it Right.......2000-08-01
As an OO practitioner and methodologist for the last 10 years, I found the Herzum / Sims book to be right on the money in several regards.
OO has a lot of theoretical ideas which just don't seem to pan out in practice. The Business Component Factory cleary explains why, and shows what really works in the true industrial setting. It is rich in practical advise, and low in BS. Very refreshing for the software practitioner who is frustrated by the OO theoreticians who spout their wisdom from the ivory towers, but have rarely, if ever, had to work on real projects.
Along these lines, the BCF book dispels the OO myth that all classes / objects must be as intelligent as possible, and admits that, in reality, it is often best to have "focus" classes. These classes contain the intelligence of a group of related classes (grouped in a component) and give the advantage of lower coupling for the other classes, and of providing a focus target for process and use case modeling. Hence, Herzum / Sims tie the use case models effectively to classes, then to components.
The BCF book also points out that components need to be "first class citizens" in the UML metamodel, which map from analysis through design into code. As the UML currently stands, packages and (UML-style) components fail miserably in this area. Herzum / Sims show how to get around this deficiency and model and produce large-scale software units (components) effectively.
There is much more to the book than described above, but the above two points emphasize that the BCF book is not afraid to take on conventional wisdom (even the sacred UML), to point out flaws in this "wisdom", and to discuss what really works. Highly recommended, especially for anyone working on large-scale system development.
An excellent guide to successful adoption of Enterprise CBD.......2000-05-29
This book is the first I have read that really tackles all aspects of what is required for Enterprise Application Development through a CBD approach.
By defining the levels of component granularity and a recursively discrete approach to breaking a business problem down into components and their constituents as finer grained components, the true requirements for CBD are evident and determined. Many books I have read make the same mistake of only discussing development of components at one level (usually what Herzum defines as the distributed component level) and fail to address the many of the aspects of CBD that are not covered by development alone (deployment, testing, management, integration, and a roadmap for the development process and managment of that process through to delivery of a component based system). The book also talks and applies the component levels to the commonly depicted 4 tier architecture and importantly introduces the concept of components needing to be not only strongly typed for internal systems but also strongly tagged (supporting XML based component messaging/invocation) for virtual and extended systems. The coverage of what is required from a Component Execution Environment (CEE) when components are more course grained than simple distributed components is well covered and continues to define the true requirements for a Business Component Execution Environment (BCVM).
The book is a must read for anyone serious about adopting CBD on and enterprise scale. The book goes well beyond the common text available for CBD (that all concentrate on the short sighted development requirements for distributed components in a fine grained component containment model). I agree with another reviewer that for those of us that have been developing systems in EJB, COM+/DCOM and CORBA much of the book covers lessons we have painfully had to learn in developing multiple component based systems that have to inter-operate, but it goes beyond that in looking at what is necessary for component based systems at the next architectural level (one that may well incorporate disparate distributed component models).
Overall Disappointing.......2000-03-29
Although I found some useful bits in here, it did not come across as good to me as some earlier reviewers found it. Maybe I missed something.
I did find some useful coverage of some good development practice e.g. the use of layered architectures, components as large grained deployment and distribution units, explicit component artifacts including external description through code, build and deployment, etc. But I did not get much more from these discussions than I already knew.
I did not find the "interoperability protocol" explanation helpful: e.g. "design-time interface" was a very fancy word for a simple list of the artifacts required at design time. The authors do not seem to recognize that these include both things needed for tools to manipulate a component at design or build time, as well as those needed by developers to understand, use, or test a component.
The book sorely needs a clearer high-level view of how components are configured together, rather than the nitty-gritty of proxies, separating functional vs. platform-specific code, etc. I see some links to the never-ending saga of the elusive "business object" track at the OMG.
Overall I was disappointed. I'd say between 1 and 2 "stars". Your milage may vary.
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Component-Based Software Development for Embedded Systems: An Overview of Current Research Trends (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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This book provides a good opportunity for software engineering practitioners and researchers to get in sync with the current state-of-the-art and future trends in component-based embedded software research. The book is based on a selective compilation of papers that cover the complete component-based embedded software spectrum, ranging from methodology to tools. Methodology aspects covered by the book include functional and non-functional specification, validation, verification, and component architecture. As tools are a critical success factor in the transfer from academia-generated knowledge to industry-ready technology, an important part of the book is devoted to tools.
This state-of-the-art survey contains 16 carefully selected papers organised in topical sections on specification and verification, component compatibility, component architectures, implementation and tool support, as well as non-functional properties.
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TCP/IP Tutorial & Technical Overview
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Quite Up to date, Concise, Very Well rounded.......2000-04-08
Much as the nature of subject defies it, RedBooks has done it again, the book is a no BS Guide to TCP/IP and related protocols. Very Readable with just enough stress on the history and such. Nice overview of Security (IPSec, VPNs and such) though some more examples would have been helpful. Figures, though well presented, could use to be more than they are. Compares very favorably to Comer's First Volume, surpasses it by preoviding an overview more specific to SysAdmin audience to whom code is not of that much importance. Buy it, highly recommended.
Book Description
Based on hundreds of interviews with promoters, DJs and ravers from over thirty countries, Rave Culture; an insider's overview is a positive endorsement of rave and a comprehensive guidebook to the rave phenomenon for ravers and non-ravers alike.
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Ideological Manifesto - No Deep Analysis Here.......2005-01-03
I read this book during my doctoral studies on rave culture during the late 1990s. It is not among my favorites books, but Fritz does deliver his goal: to provide an "insider's overview" (as the book subtitle says). It genuinely reflects the 1990s rave P.L.U.R. ideology of pure sentimentalism and naive optimism.
In this connection, it overemphasizes rave spirituality, a common feature amid rave veterans, not found in the average weekend consumer. The book also underplays ravers' often-dreadful concerns with drug abuse. Fritz thus reflects other MDMA authors' enthusiasm with pharmacological enlightenment, since they have tried 'ecstasy' a few times only, ignoring the dystopian dimension of psychedelia.
The reader should not expect any type of sociological analysis here. The book is a manifesto, reflecting the highly optimistic mood of rave subcultures before they submerged in the early 2000s (under right-wing hegemonies and the post-9/11 doomsday scenario).
If you were a loyal raver, the book will resonate with your original experiences with rave. As an outsider, you will learn about the raver mentality from the point-of-view of an enthusiastic participant, even though 2000s electronica fans are much more realistic, skeptical and even cynical in comparison with former "candy ravers".
Great Book.......2004-08-23
This is a must read for anyone interested in raves.
Michael Brianson's review below is WAY off base.
Buy this book.
just more pap............2004-05-24
one more book pushing old quotes and usless info about a dying dope scene. if you are looking for an educated veiw of this scene you won't find it in this book. it could also use another edit to help with the flow and grammer, but next to that it does not present anything new or truly useful.
an informative read.......2001-07-14
I found "Rave Culture: an Insider's Overview" to be a totally fun read. It has an easy and clear format for delivering the info on the rave sound and the surrounding environment. I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the rave dance-movement, and the influence that this sound is having on the culture. Read it and become aware!
Rave Culture, the book ........2001-07-13
This book by Jimi Fritz is very well documented & is educational on all levels of the subject. It is also being used as a resource book in university. It has been written by an insider of the "rave culture", & therefore is not simply academic, but has been written by one Jimi Fritx who loves to dance, in trance . I have personally known the author & his family for over a decade & I can say that this book has been composed with total integrety along with insider experince . thank you / enjoy reading this book
Satyahit das
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Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues -- scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life, along with a new introduction by Christopher Langton, Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Life, founder of the discipline, and Director of the Artificial Life Program at the Santa Fe Institute.
Customer Reviews:
Reprint for money.......1999-11-08
Why not just go to the library and pick up volume 1 of the Artificial Life journal. That's all this is. Did someone really have the gall to sell us a journal twice? Yes, Virginia, I guess they did.
GOOD.......1999-02-22
IT IS GOOD BOOK FOR EDUCATIO
An eclectic gathering of papers on dynamic systems.......1998-03-25
Langton pulls together a number of interesting papers from the Los Alamos a-life conference, bound with the perspective only he can provide. Great for the technically-minded curious but most promising as storehouse of ideas for experimentors in dynamic adaptive systems.
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Written for computer professionals who have a basic understanding of communications, this book offers a broad overview of the emerging technologies of very high-speed data and voice communications. Covers the principles of high-speed networking; fiber optical technology and optical networks; local area networks; metropolitan area networks; high-speed packet switches; and high-speed cell switching. For computer professionals interested in the fields of data communications and voice networking.
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Basic Technical Detail is very thorough.......2000-01-04
This book is very useful. Especially if you are technically minded and trying to move from another field such as IP Routing, Frame Relay or Wireless. It is technical where it needs to be a simple where it needs to be. It contains good, unhyped information. Its unbiased, point of view is refreshing in this time, when the networking books are mainly by manufacturers and full of hype.
Great book.......1998-04-02
It's a great book. Anyone who want to understand what ATM is, must read this book.
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