This text provides the reader with comprehensive coverage of the computer concepts needed to be understood by all people who will be interacting with computers. Included in the book are subjects such as interactive and batch processing systems, input to the computer, obtaining output from the computer, data communications, programming, operating systems, systems software and systems analysis and design.
Gary B. Shelly wrote and published his first computer education textbook in 1969. More than twenty million copies of Shelly Cashman Series textbooks have since been sold.
Gary and a talented group of contributing authors have produced books on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software that are the leading textbooks in the computer technology market today. Gary has hosted the annual Shelly Cashman Institute, a week-long training event focusing on the latest topics in technology, for the past 34 years.