Computer Science: An Overview, 11th Edition (Chinese Edition)

This book makes an encyclopedic elaborating to the Computer Science, fully demonstrating the history background, development course and new technology trends of the computer science. It firstly introduces the fundamental principles of information coding and computer architecture (Chapter 1 and Chapter 2), and then tells the operating system (Chapter 3 ) and the networking and the Internet (Chapter 4), and discusses the algorithms, programming languages and software engineering (Chapter 5 to Chapter 7), and finally discusses the issue of data abstraction and database (Chapter 8 and Chapter 9). Chapter 10 tells some of the major applications of the computer technology through graphics; Chapter 11 involves Artificial Intelligence; Chapter 12 concludes this book by introducing the theory of computation. The content arrangement of this book goes forwards step by step from concrete to abstract, it is suitable for teaching, and each theme can elicit the next theme naturally. In addition, this book contains a large number of graphs, charts and examples which help the readers to understand and master knowledge.