Understanding Today and Tomorrow gives your students a classic introduction to computer concepts with a modern twist! Known for its emphasis on industry insight and societal issues, this text makes concepts relevant to today's career-focused students and has increased emphasis on mobile computing and related issues such as mobile commerce and mobile security.Important Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
A very useful source for beginners in Computer field that contain a brief of all things about the world of computers. Module 1 Explain introduction to the world of computers Module 2 Hardware, describe devices and peripheral devices Module 3 Software , discuss the diff between system software and app software Module 4 Network and the internet, explain a network and how does data travel over network Module 5 Business on the web, explain web base multimedia and web design Module 6 Systems, discuss information system,system development, program development, programming language and database management systems Module 7 Computer and society
read for an introduction to computer systems course I had a week before the final exam so... rating: 2.5/5 the book gives you a basic non-technical introduction to computer systems : software, hardware, networks, information systems, and security. that may be a good course for non-tech majors but like common, that should not be in a cs degree. superficial and not really well explained at some points (just my opinion), a bit dated and a bit dry too.
good read? idk I didn't hate it, but I would rather have spent that time reading a more technical book.
Some nice background on computing along with its social and cultural impacts, but in my opinion the information is pretty dated and overly simplistic for college readers.