Blank, Glenn.

The universal machine : a multimedia introduction to computing / Glenn Blank, Robert Barnes. - Boston, Mass : McGraw Hill, 1998. - xix, 556 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Includes index.

1. Introducing... The Universal Machine. - 2. Problem solving before programming. - 3. A taste of C++. - 4. Programming languages and their translators. - 5. Classes: an outside look. - 6. The software development life cycle. - 7. Structured programming with control structures. - 8. Peeling the onion : Computer Architecture. - 9. Functins and decomposition. - 10. Operating systems and networks. - 11. Strings and arrays. - 12. Theory of computation. - 13. Object-oriented software. - 14. Classes: an inside look. - 15. Social and ethical issues. - 16. Artificial intelligence. - Appendix: C++ Language structures. - Index.

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