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Computer Science: An Overview (10th Edition)

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excellent

By Love Ionizers "Clean Air Fan" - December 30, 2012

i loved this book. excellent explanations if you take the time to actually read and think about it in order to understand. if you skim through it, you will understand nothing

barney level

By jim - February 16, 2012

this book is too easy to read and then the HW probs have no examples in the text. this guy brookshar comes off a major lightweight. the text does not have nearly enough technical stuff and is too brief in a lot of areas

Comprehensive, though a bit dry and esoteric

By CrunchyCookie - September 10, 2008

While I have no doubt the author knows his stuff, I can't imagine this book having strong appeal with any one audience. On one hand, I can see how those already in the know about Computer Science would find this text too simple, since it spends most of its time explaining the nuts and bolts of the stuff they probably already know: binary language, bits and bytes, programming languages, and a heck of a lot of terminology.

It's even worse for those of us who don't know jack about CS and are trying to get an idea. Simply put, this book is dry and dense, and always getting bogged down in a level of detail that seems inappropriate for something calling itself an "overview." It's stuff you have to slow down or re-read to fully absorb, and I suspect it would turn off a lot of casual readers from exploring CS further. When it's finally over, you'll have learned very little about programming, which is the point of picking up a title like this in the first place.

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