TY - BOOK AU - Schneider,G.Michael AU - Gersting,Judith L TI - Invitation to computer science: C++ version 3e SN - 0534390978 U1 - 004 21 PY - 2004/// CY - Belmont, CA PB - Brooks Cole KW - Computer sciences N1 - Include index; Introduction to computer science -- Algorithmic foundations of computer science: Algorithm discovery and design; Efficiency of algorithms -- Hardware world: Building blocks, binary numbers, Boolean logic, and gates; Computer systems organization -- Virtual machine: Introduction to system software and virtual machines; Computer systems organization -- Software world: Introduction to high-level language programming; Tower of Babel; Compilers and language translation; Models of computation -- Applications: Simulation and modeling; Electronic commerce and information security; Artificial intelligence -- Social issues in computing: Making decisions about computers, information, and society ER -