| View Larger Image | Computer Science Made Simple: Learn how hardware and software work-- and how to make them work for you! | Paperbackby V. Anton Spraul (Author)
| List Price: | $12.95 | |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Made Simple | | Page Count: | 192 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 12, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 486,046th |
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Product Description
A Brand-New Book on an Essential Topic:Computer Science Made Simple offers a straightforward one-stop resource for technology novices and advanced techies alike. V. Anton Spraul clarifies the basic concepts of hardware and software as well as networks, the Internet, graphics, and other applications, emphasizing how to put computers to work for you (instead of the other way around). |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 4 reviews)
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Really made things "click" by Della D. Nisula  5 Stars
April 20, 2009
After reading this book, computers weren't as scary. Somehow it made sense how it operates. Now I enjoy time on the computer!!
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Very good, very good! by Y. Harri (Finland) 5 Stars
January 21, 2009
I have read several beginner computer books lately and this is by far best of them, if this is beginner book at all! This book doesn't underestimate the intelligence of reader and doesn't "buy more pages" with nonsense. I mean, if you don't know how to move mouse or where Enter button is on keyboard, buy '-for dummies' books. But if you want to get little bit (well a lot actually) deeper than that, buy this book.
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Excellent Seller by Patricia Bernadette (Palm Coast, FL United States) 5 Stars
August 10, 2007
Book was in perfect condition as promised. Service was great and shipping was on time. The price was also very reasonable. Overall excellent seller. Would buy from again and recommend to others.
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explains hardware and software to a general audience by W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)  4 Stars
August 06, 2005
Spraul gives a quick and easy introduction to explaining this mysterious thing call computer science. He explains the common Neumann architecture of a single CPU computer. Something which has essentially remained unchanged since the Manhattan Project.
Then he talks about the software that runs on this hardware. From this model of software running on 1 computer, the discussion segues naturally into a network of such machines. Wherein the Internet appears. And its common version, the Web, which many users casually and wrongly assume to be synonymous with it.
There is little specialised hardware knowledge or maths required for the book. Indeed, the Boolean logic is shown to be utterly simple. Though, within the constraints of his presentation, the reader is not shown enough to appreciate that from the Boolean logic, one can build up an entire edifice of digital maths. [It's properly the subject of a more advanced text.]
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