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The cost of statistical computing software has precluded many universities from installing these valuable computational and analytical tools. R, a powerful open-source software package, was created in response to this issue. It has enjoyed explosive growth since its introduction, owing to its coherence, flexibility, and free availability. While it is a valuable tool for students who are first learning statistics, proper introductory materials are needed for its adoption. Using R for Introductory Statistics fills this gap in the literature, making the software accessible to the introductory student. The author presents a self-contained treatment of statistical topics and the intricacies of the R software. The pacing is such that students are able to master data manipulation and exploration before diving into more advanced statistical concepts. The book treats exploratory data analysis with more attention than is typical, includes a chapter on simulation, and provides a unified approach to linear models. This text lays the foundation for further study and development in statistics using R. Appendices cover installation, graphical user interfaces, and teaching with R, as well as information on writing functions and producing graphics. This is an ideal text for integrating the study of statistics with a powerful computational tool.
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Very complete introduction to statistics and GNU R.......2007-07-27
This is the perfect book if you are looking for a self-contained, practical introduction to statistics using GNU R.
It contains a lot of examples and exercises for reinforcing the contents. Very clear and organized presentation of topics. It assumes no previous background on statistics at all, and could be used as a complementary text for lab sessions.
It both explains GNU R commands and data types and provides a basic introduction to statistics theory, from a practical point of view. The last one, of course, may also be enhanced by your favorite book for introductory statistics, though it is not absolutely necessary to use this book.
Poorly organized and frustrating.......2007-07-23
In an introductory book, it is really important to present concepts in order. This book fails on this count. On more than one occasion, a concept (e.g., "trimmed mean") or a function (e.g., "range(x)") is mentioned without being defined, only to be presented as new later on. This is very frustrating and prevents a new student from working through the book fast. As some other reviewers remarked, the index is a complete disaster, which only makes this worse. It is nice that the book comes with a package of problems. The package lacks answers to most of these problems, though, so one can't check progress easily.
Look elsewhere.
best overall introduction to statistics using R.......2007-05-08
This book is an excellent introduction to basic statistics, not assuming a knowledge of calculus, using an intuitive "hands-on approach" using the free computer program R. Statistics should be learned with the fingers on a computer, not merely by memorizing formulas, so you do well to learn statistics with a book in one hand, sitting in front of a computer. John Verzani gives a gentle introduction to statistics using R.
For those unaware, R is a complete, very powerful statistics program that was developed in the 1990s based on an early language called S/Splus, created by John Chambers in the 1970s. S/Splus is an extremely powerful language for doing statistics / numerical research, and was developed explicitly for that purpose. It is far stronger than Matlab for statistical data analysis. R has a vibrant online community with hundreds of free add-on packages (available from the CRAN website). R has grown to be much more powerful than SPSS or SAS in recent years, and is becoming the tool of choice by the experts in the field. It's suitable for beginners too, but doesn't have the point and click style of simpler programs.
There are three main books that are introductions to R. One by Verzani (reviewed here), one by Dalgaard, and one by Crawley. Of the three, I find this one to be the best. It is the most clearly organized and has the best logical presentation of the three. It goes into the right amount of depth without getting bogged down. You can work through all the exercises in the book because the datasets are freely downloadable from the web.
Be sure to do as many of the exercises in the book as you can -- that will really help you to learn statistics well!
Great stater book.......2005-12-24
This is a great stater book for basic statistics.And for being used for 28 bucks you can not go wrong.
not my favorite book.......2005-09-29
This is my textbook for an introductory biostats course. The reason why the teacher picked this book is because the software, R, is free. I find that if I use this as an instruction manual to use R, it's okay. However, as a statistics book, I find it difficult to follow and the explanations are not as clear as some of the other books on the market (e.g. the Dawson book called "Basic and Clinical Biostatistics" which is much more palatable)
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Introductory Logic and Sets for Computer Scientists (International Computer Science Series)
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in mathematical specification of software. Languages such as Z and VDM
are used for this purpose.
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Particular emphasis is placed on the application of logic in the fields of software engineering, artificial intelligence and natural language processing
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Catches the Misconceptions Before They Happen.......2003-03-13
This book not only covers discrete mathematics well, but shows real professionalism in education. I have over twenty years of software experience and this book was arranged to allow me to refresh or learn for the first time precisely the material I wanted.
Not only this, but Dr Nissanke is well aware of common misconceptions and misunderstandings that students may have in learning discrete mathematics. Examples are the differences between bound and free variables, unknowns and genuine variables, what to guard against in building proofs, and more. For me, I had missed in my education the material from the entire chapters on Interpretation of Formulae and Proofs in Predicate Logic, and never had the time and patience to piece this together from textbooks where this material was learned by osmosis or "between-the-lines".
Another big plus for me was the introductory material to Z, formal specification, functional programming, and lambda calculus. These were done very straightforwardly and user-friendly.
The book also spends more than a tenth of its 400 pages on giving solutions to its exercises.
Finally, it is reasonably priced, especially considering that other introductory textbooks in discrete mathematics run $100 to $125 but are still short on the educational know-how.
My only regrets are that it does not cover posets and graphs. However, this may be a good division of labor between this and a follow-on course.
a good sophomore-level book.......2001-09-15
a nice sophomore-level book. it introduces basic set theory and logic concepts, but at "gentle" pace. the type of book that would be used at a liberal arts college, but not at a "real" engineering school. has a nice examples and does a decent job in explaining the basics.
Great Book for Understanding Logic.......1999-05-08
I like this book very much. It's very clearly written and a delight to read. I especially like the chapters on transformational proofs and propositional logic. The author makes the topics easy for students to grasp the theory and understand the fundamentals of what may seem to be a difficult subject.
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R is an Open Source implementation of the well-known S language. It works on multiple computing platforms and can be freely downloaded. R is thus ideally suited for teaching at many levels as well as for practical data analysis and methodological development. This book provides an elementary-level introduction to R, targeting both non-statistician scientists in various fields and students of statistics. The main mode of presentation is via code examples with liberal commenting of the code and the output, from the computational as well as the statistical viewpoint. Brief sections introduce the statistical methods before they are used. A supplementary R package can be downloaded and contains the data sets. All examples are directly runnable and all graphics in the text are generated from the examples. The statistical methodology covered includes statistical standard distributions, one- and two-sample tests with continuous data, regression analysis, one- and two-way analysis of variance, regression analysis, analysis of tabular data, and sample size calculations. In addition, the last four chapters contain introductions to multiple linear regression analysis, linear models in general, logistic regression, and survival analysis. Peter Dalgaard is associate professor at the Biostatistical Department at the University of Copenhagen and has extensive experience in teaching within the PhD curriculum at the Faculty of Health Sciences. He was chairman of the Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics from 1996 to 2000. Peter Dalgaard has been a key member of the R Core Team since August 1997 and is well known among R users for his activity on the R mailing lists.
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Excellent resource.......2007-09-22
I bought this book a little over a year ago when a friend and colleague insisted I learn the R system for our collaborative work. I am not a professional statistician, but an engineer and researcher who needs and uses statistics in the course of my professional work.
I found this book approachable and informative from the non-professional perspective. (That is, from the viewpoint of a non-statistician.) I found enough examples to guide me through the process of bringing my datasets into the R environment, and then enough guidance to get me through the initial analyses necessary to make meaningful use of the statistical computations contained within the R system.
There are many other texts that treat the kinds of advanced statistics capability in the R system. Those are also necessary references for the non-statistician. There are also other texts on using the graphics subsystem present in R (which is substantial). Those references are also useful for preparation of reports and other written material.
But, this text is most useful as a primer for the system and is a first source on my shelf when I need to know the "how-to" of the basics. Then, if my needs are more substantial than those addressed by Dalgaard, I'll turn to other references.
Great for learning the language.......2007-03-23
If you have learned the stat concepts behind these procedures already, this is book is great. I think this book is very helpful for people who have had a few stat courses where the professor used a competing stat software package.
I really like how the author repeats some of the important syntax explanations throughout the book (for example, why attaching a data frame makes the syntax more concise). This approach makes it better than trying to learn R from the isolated html help files.
Introductory Statistics with R review.......2007-01-04
Excelent book. Help you with your R and with your statistics.
Extremely Good!!!!!.......2006-11-03
Theory, examples and graphics are in a state of the art!
I really like how the book flows between statistics theory and R commands. Graphics and examples are concrete and adequate.
I would like this book has a chapter about simulation (statistical validation) but I know is "Introductory"
I do really recommend this book!
A great place to start.......2006-06-17
After years of wrestling with R in mild hopes of being able to switch off of button clicking statistical packages, I finally decided to bite the bullet and buy some R books. This book was a perfect place to start. After reading it my frustrations have gone down considerably. This book along with the Venables Ripley book have made R my new toy.
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Brilliant softwate.......2007-08-10
The applets on this is just great for understanding many physics concepts. It covers most topics (mechanics, waves, electrostatics, magnetism etc), it has interactive menus so you can change the parameters in the experiments and it logs the output and plots them for you.
Highly recommended for any high school student and even university students. An excellent teaching and learning tool. I highly recommend it to my students since it moves abstract concepts closer to the concrete stage.
If you are a parent, this is a MUST have for your child to aid their learning of physics concepts.
The downside is some of the applets do not work but they are a small minority. Note you need to enable the java function on your browser, just go to Sun Microsystems website, it should work.
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- Don't waste your time
- Clear concepts in concise description
- Overall, good book for begineers.
- Overall, good book for begineers.
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Don't waste your time.......2007-08-07
This is easily the worst technical book that I have ever read. To be fair I gave up after 55 pages and almost the same number of errors. Diagrams are missing pieces or labels, or are just incorrect. The examples are either too vague to make sense or are incomplete or wrong. After three chapters the author had rambled through such an abstract description of the VHDL that he explained nothing. Save your money and buy almost any other VHDL book.
Clear concepts in concise description.......2005-09-17
I have found the book so helpful after trying to find answers on line or from other VHDL books. It helped me greatly in understanding the concepts, some times assisted by the just in-time figures.
For example the concept of 'delayed(T) signal attribute has been clearly explained and even illustrated with a Figure. We can not only use the signal to assign another one, but also more importantly we can "check for relationships between the current value of the signal and an older value of the same signal". This has helped me to understand some professional VHDL programs.
The author must be such a knowledgeable professor who can teach the concepts so clearly as well. Thanks for the book!
Overall, good book for begineers........2003-06-19
had to buy this book for subject at uni. The arena of VHDL, digital logic, synthesis, simulation and FPGA's is a broad subject and it can be hard to know where to start and where to find the right information. Overall I found the book to be a good introductory text and reference but with a few small annoying features.
This book is definitely at the begineer's level. The really good feature of this book is the focus on synthesis of VHDL code. If you are learning VHDL from what vendors publish and what is on the internet you may not find what you need. Chapter 7 especially will fill in the missing pieces and give you a good idea of what is going on with things such as synthesis compiliers. Haven't seen any other texts that explain that kind of thing.
Some items that let the book down for me was that it seemed to be riddled with textual errors. Numerous times there seemed to be words missing from sentences, which really interrupts the flow of learning. The other part that was frustrating was that the tone the author took seemed to be like an adult talking to a baby.
However, he proves his point and I can understand the motivation for doing so, as VHDL is not a normal programming language.
The book covers FPGA's (indirectly) and the author shows to reference elements in an FPGA if needed, whilst still sticking to the whole VHDL theme. That is something that I found good.
Something I believe that would have been helpful would be having the simulation software on the CD, with an appendix overview of what is going on with those tools.
If you are an undergraduate, new to VHDL and are new to using EDA software like Xilinx and don't quite follow everything, then this book will get you going quickstart. It can help save you alot of potential time being wasted.
Overall, good book for begineers........2003-06-19
had to buy this book for subject at uni. The arena of VHDL, digital logic, synthesis and simulation is a broad subject and it can be hard to know where to start and where to find the right information. Overall I found the book to be a good introductory text and reference but with a few small annoying features.
This book is definitely at the begineer level. The really good feature of this book is the focus on synthesis of VHDL code. If you are learning VHDL from what vendors publish and what is on the internet you may not find what you need. Chapter 7 especially will fill in the missing pieces and give you a good idea of what is going on with things such as synthesis compiliers. Haven't seen any other texts that explain that kind of thing.
The items that let the book down is that the book seemed to be riddled with textual errors. Numerous times there seemed to be words missing from sentences and it really interrupts the flow of learning. The other part that was frustrating was that the tone the author took seemed to be like an adult talking to a baby.
However, he proves his point and I can understand the motivation for doing so, because VHDL is not a normal programming language.
Something that I believe would have been helpful to others would be having the simulation software on the CD with an appendix overview of what is going on with those tools.
If you are an undergraduate, new to VHDL and are new to using EDA software like Xilinx and don't quite follow everything, then this book will get you going quickstart. It will help to minimise the distance between the two topics of FPGA's and VHDL, which can save you an enormous amount of wasted time.
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- Best book of its kind
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This textbook provides a thorough and systematic introduction to designing digital circuits. The author is the leading programming language designer of our time and in this book, based on a course for 2nd-year students at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, he aims to close the gap between hardware and software design. He encourages the student to put the theory to work in exercises that include lab work culminating in the design of a simple yet complete computer. The lab work is based on a workstation equipped with a single field programmable gate array chip and software tools for entering, editing, and analyzing designs. This text is a modern introduction to designing circuits using state-of-the-art technology and a concise, easy to master hardware description language (Lola)
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Best book of its kind.......2005-06-23
This is an unusual little book that addresses a specific need: the first introduction to hardware how and why for someone who's already a competent programmer. That audience has very different needs than those of electrical engineering students learning logic design, but I know of no other book intended for that audience.
The pace is brisk. It starts at the level of bipolar transistors, and shows the differences between a CMOS and TTL totem pole. Before page 100, the student has seen combinational logic, registers, RAM and ROM, and the Lola hardware design language, and is designing a CPU. By the time the book ends, the student has seen bit-slice controllers, microprocessors and IO systems, and the inner workings of a UART.
This is not idle play. 99% of all processors these days do not run Windows or Unix. Instead, they're inside of sewing machines, fuel injectors, implanted defibrillators, and anti-lock brakes. Schools do little, if anything at all, to prepare students for working in an environment where software and hardware are interchangeable. In those worlds, a programmer is often called upon to specify and debug hardware, at least as one member of a mixed development team. They may even need to understand how to create logic circuits that perform computing tasks. Silicon Graphics and Cray have both released main-stream processors that have programmable logic strapped onto their CPUs, and someone has to make that logic work.
Because of its unique direction, this book skips nearly all of what a "logic design" book would address. There is no Karnaugh mapping, state minimization, or mention of logic hazards (though the student does get a look at some kinds of transient glitches). There is bare mention of asynchronous design, a bugbear of logic design students and now relegated to narrow niches. There are, however, schematics and part lists for a CPU built from MSI logc, for a microprocessor-based computer, and for the gate-array logic design of a small CPU.
An EE might poo-poo this book as "logic lite," because it doesn't teach all that manly circuit stuff. Well, it wasn't meant to. The student who studies this book carefully, however, will be ready to deal with ground bounce, spec sheets, and a wide range of problems from the analog level on up.
Wirth's dense but readable book is my choice for a programmer's first look inside the hardware. I just wish there were an edition newer than the 1995 printing.
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An unusual approach towards circuit design and HDLs.......1998-11-25
When this book appeared in 1995, I had a look at it, but I did not buy it. Why not ?
Wirth describes the basics of modern circuit design without going too much into the electrical details. After a short look at transistors (bipolar and FET) he goes to gates (NAND/NOR/NOT) and shows how to create building blocks like multiplexers, ROM and RAM with them. This presentation culminates in the description of a simple microprocessor core. But it looked a bit too elementary at first sight.
Nevertheless, 3 years later I bought the book, started reading it and still enjoy reading it. Why this change of view ? What I overlooked at first sight was the HDL that Wirth introduces after the presentation of the building blocks in chapter 7. This language is called Lola (Logic Language) and is much simpler than VHDL, Verilog and even simpler than Abel. Lola looks a bit like the other languages Wirth created (Pascal, Modula, Oberon). In the second half of the book, he uses this language to specify his processor design and some peripherals (like a UART). These readable and concise designs together with the unique approach to circuit design are the main reasons why I can recommend this book.
Warning: If you want to learn a HDL that is widely accepted in the industry, learn VHDL, Verilog or Abel. Lola is the outgrowth of an academic project and will not enable you to earn much money in the industry. But I like it and the book.
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This book emphasizes combinatorial ideas including the pigeon-hole principle, counting techniques, permutations and combinations, Pólya counting, binomial coefficients, inclusion-exclusion principle, generating functions and recurrence relations, and combinatortial structures (matchings, designs, graphs). The volume provides a complete examination of combinatorial ideas and techniques. For individuals interested in combinatorial concepts.
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nice accessable text.......2007-04-15
Most (but not all) of the copious errors in earlier editions have been fixed.
(Brualdi maintains an errata list on his website.) I like this book a lot,
it has a nice, relaxed style of exposition and the choice of topics is good
for an introductory course.
Interesting Problems, Too Many Mistakes.......1999-01-04
I used the book to guide me through a Combinatorics class I took in the summer of 1998. The author has presented some very interesting problems like prove that of any 10 points chosen withen an equlateral triangle of side length 1, there are 2 whose distance apart is at most 1/3 that use some interesting techniques such as the pigeonhole principal. The book, however contained too many mistakes. My professor said on average there is one mistake per page and he wasn't exagerating either. Luckily with his help, we corrected the many mistakes and then were successfully able to use the book. I notice that the author has written a new edition. I hope most of the mistakes have been corrected because when I pay a good sum of money for a book I expect it to be good book without errors.
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- Great refresher!
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- Irreverent writing, good topics
- Great Guide For The Electronically Perplexed
- Makes Really Boring Stuff Interesting
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"If you want to be reminded of the joy of electronics, take a look at Clive (Max) Maxfield's book Bebop to the Boolean Boogie." --Computer Design
"Lives up to its title as a useful and entertaining technical guide....well-suited for students, technical writers, technicians, and sales and marketing people." --Electronic Design
"Writing a book like this one takes audacity! ... Maxfield writes lucidly on a variety of complex topics without 'writing down' to his audience." --EDN
"A highly readable, well-illustrated guided tour through basic electronics." -Science Books & Films
"Extremely readable and easy to understand, you'll wonder how people learned about this stuff before this book came along." --New Book Bulletin, Computer Literacy Bookshops
* The difference between the analog and digital worlds.
* What logic gates are and how to make them from transistors.
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Great refresher!.......2006-03-15
I love that I can just skim through this book & find the information that I need. It is really basic - clearly written with great examples. After being away from work for 8 years & being out of school for almost 20, it was a great refresher! Besides, Max proves that even geeks can have a sense of humor!
Great book.......2006-02-24
Considering this book deals with what I consider to be rocket science at best and black magic at worst I think it does a really good job of explaining things. I'm still working through it and it still makes my head hurt but I recommend this for anyone like me who wants to understand this stuff and has zero background to do so.
Irreverent writing, good topics.......2005-12-27
Maxfield's book is unique, both in format and in content. And I'm not just talking about the gumbo recipe at the end.
The first section, almost 150 pages, is "logic lite." It starts with transistors, both MOS and bipolar. From there it works its way up to simple latches and such, and scratches the surface of state machines, with side trips to boolean arithmetic and such. The breezy, informal style will work for people put off by more academic treatments, but the logic design content stops way short of what any other basic logic text would present.
The second, longer section covers material sorely missing from all other logic texts I know. It starts with the simpler parts of silicon fab process, then goes through all kinds of printed circuits and hybrid packages giving a fair tour of the basic printed curcuit (PC) processes that were current when the book was written (1995). It even goes into gutsy stuff like the copper patterns in PC processes that have to do with heat flow during soldering. All those real-world facts earned this book an extra star. The "far out technology" chapter at the end is an interesting read, too, with its discussions of nano, optical, and molecular computing.
The book's weaknesses are significant, though. It would work well with any of several companion texts that would cover what this misses. That includes more advanced logic techniques, like alternatives to gate-level implementation and all the fussy bits of state machines. A standard logic text (e.g. Katz) would fill in those blanks. Going in a different direction, it does only a little towards talking about how PC layout interacts with logic design. More about ground planes, guard rings, power decoupling, RF emissions, etc. would fit well with the detail presented here, espcially when you see how much time and effort it already spends on "vias" vs. "holes." The little bit of analog discussion from the front would help here - why inductive effects matter at high frequencies, why distributed capacitance is different from lumped, why you'd have a high-value and low-value capacitor in parallel, and why that ceramic cap near the power input has a saw cut in the edge. A third possible direction would be the way Wirth's book on circuit design for CS students went: into the higher levels of design, letting tools attend to the lower levels. The biggest flaw is in treating FPGAs as exotic, out-there technology - by 1995, they were well into the main stream, and have very nearly killed off discrete logic and ASICs in many areas.
If you just want a light-weight intro to logic design and to the physical circuits that carry it, this is OK. It could have been better in all directions and, at this 2005 writing, you should check it's sell-by date. I gave it the fourth star for addressing PCs and mounting at all, not for addressing them well.
//wiredweird
Great Guide For The Electronically Perplexed.......2005-08-09
I grew up watching my neighbor, a mechanic, work on cars and it helped me pick up the basics. When I would try to take apart a transistor radio and figure out how it worked I was left with an assortment of colorful bits and no clues. This book is the remedy for my total ignorance of things electronic. Just how good it is I do not know due to my lack of knowledge in the field. I reccomend it to any interested beginners.
Makes Really Boring Stuff Interesting.......2005-03-19
As a student finishing my B.S. in Computer Science, I very badly needed something to liven up my CPU architecture and discrete math classes, which were horribly boring.
This book not only did a GREAT job of clarifying the finer points of boolean logic, but somehow managed make it interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone trying to understand the nuts-and-bolts behind what makes your computer tick.
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- not for beginners, ok for intermediate, but just ok
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Take an object-oriented approach when learning the next generation of Visual Basic. Best-selling author, Michael Ekedahl explores the .NET platform, discussing Visual Basic as an object-oriented, data-driven language. Tackling the numerous changes and enhancements to the .Net framework, this book is designed for individuals with little or no programming background and introduces sound programming techniques through hands-on exercises and end-of-chapter case problems. It offers real-world MIS and business-related examples to help prepare readers for their first job experience using Visual Basic.NET.
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not for beginners, ok for intermediate, but just ok.......2003-05-01
The topics are thrown at you without much hand holding. Much more detail would be beneficial on some of the finite areas. I would rather some topics get a whole chapter, instead of a page or two. Other books from this same publisher (By Diane Zak in particular) are absolutely wonderful. Overall, just be ready to reread the material from this book several times to fully grasp it. That said, it will teach you how to fully interact with data and controls.
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"Introductory".......2006-10-17
Be careful - there is an introductory (only goes to ch. 9) and a complete edition. I'm writing this because I did not pay attn and just realized (half way through my course) that I have the wrong one. Didn't want anyone else to make the same mistake...
Great book for intro. concepts computer course.......2004-11-20
This is an excellent computer book. It has lots of picture to show you what they are talking about in the chapters. If you don't know anything about computers and want to learn more, this is the book for you. This book can literally help you pick out your next computer and be able to utilize it more efficiently. An excellent book for introductory college course. This book can be used by anyone. If you're interested in knowing more about how your computer works, this is the book for you. A+
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