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Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math - Featuring the Virtual Diy Calculator

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Zusatztext "For those interested in a slightly off-beat approach to learning the basics of computer architectures! Maxfield and Brown have put together a multimedia package that's well worth the price of admission." (Electronic Design.com! October 20! 2005)"The book is perfect for students and those among us who aspire to really understand what is going on in those gismos...the prose is easy to read! and the lab exercises are well designed." (Gabe On EDA.com) Informationen zum Autor CLIVE "MAX" MAXFIELD is a bestselling author and engineer with a large following in the electronic design automation (EDA) and embedded systems industries. He is also one of the founders and President of the high-technology marketing consultancy TechBites (www.TechBites.com). ALVIN BROWN has spent over thirty years working in the electronics and computing industries. He currently acts as an engineering manager supervising remote development groups around the world. Klappentext The Basics of Computer Arithmetic Made Enjoyable and Accessible-with a Special Program Included for Hands-on Learning"The combination of this book and its associated virtual computer is fantastic! Experience over the last fifty years has shown me that there's only one way to truly understand how computers work; and that is to learn one computer and its instruction set-no matter how simple or primitive-from the ground up. Once you fully comprehend how that simple computer functions, you can easily extrapolate to more complex machines."-Fred Hudson, retired engineer/scientist"This book-along with the virtual DIY Calculator-is an incredibly useful teaching and learning tool. The interesting trivia nuggets keep you turning the pages to see what's next. Students will have so much fun reading the text and performing the labs that they won't even realize they are learning."-Michael Haghighi, Chairperson of the Business and Computer Information Systems Division, Calhoun Community College, Alabama"At last, a book that presents an innovative approach to the teaching of computer architecture. Written with authority and verve, witty, superbly illustrated, and enhanced with many laboratory exercises, this book is a must for students and teachers alike."-Dr. Albert Koelmans, Lecturer in Computer Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and the 2003 recipient of the EASIT-Eng. Gold Award for Innovative Teaching in Computer EngineeringPacked with nuggets of information and tidbits of trivia, How Computers Do Math provides an incredibly fun and interesting introduction to the way in which computers perform their magic in general and math in particular. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a virtual computer/calculator called the DIY Calculator, and the book's step-by-step interactive laboratories guide you in the creation of a simple program to run on your DIY Calculator.How Computers Do Math can be enjoyed by non-technical individuals; students of computer science, electronics engineering, and mathematics; and even practicing engineers. All of the illustrations and interactive laboratories featured in the book are provided on the CD-ROM for use by high school, college, and university educators as lecture notes and handouts. Zusammenfassung Featuring a unique CD that contains a virtual computer/calculator software program, This essential text begins by explaining fundamental math concepts, such as the use of powers and different place-value number systems (specifically binary, decimal, and hexadecimal). Inhaltsverzeichnis Laboratories ix Do You Speak Martian? xi Chapter 0 Why This Book is So Cool 1 This is where we discover just why this book is so cool, and also why this chapter is numbered "0." Chapter 1 Introducing Binary and Hexadecimal Numbers 7 In this chapter we introduce the concepts of the binary and hexadecimal number sy...

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Authors Brown, Alvin Brown, Brown Alvin, Maxfield, Cliv Maxfield, Clive Maxfield, Clive Brown Maxfield, Maxfield Clive
Publisher Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 21.10.2005
 
EAN 9780471732785
ISBN 978-0-471-73278-5
No. of pages 464
Dimensions 195 mm x 237 mm x 25 mm
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing

Informatik, computer science, Computer Science - General Interest, Populäre Themen i. d. Informatik

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