Exploring the Digital Domain : An Introduction to Computing with Multimedia and Networking

by ABERNETHY/ALLEN

• ISBN13: 9780534955168
• ISBN10: 0534955169
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780534407070
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-08
• Publisher: Course Technology
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Summary

Ken Abernethy and Tom Allen take an entirely fresh look at the introductory computing course, and teach the skills readers need to understand, create, work and communicate using digital media and networks. While most computer users are proficient in word processing, the worlds of image processing, digital sound, multimedia presentations, know-bots, MUDs, and MOOs are undiscovered territory for many. To be able to use these new and interesting capabilities, computer users must achieve a new standard of computer literacy. The computer literacy standard presented in this book is more dynamic and more conceptual than those of the past. The authors show how the computer and its associated devices and networks - or the digital domain - provides a new and fundamental communications paradigm for the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Information in the Digital Domain	2	(22)
Chapter 2 The Digital Domain	24	(22)
Chapter 3 Connecting the Digital Domain: The World Wide Web	46	(48)
Chapter 4 The Development and Basic Organization of Computers	94	(30)
Chapter 5 Secondary Memory and Input/Output	124	(42)
Chapter 6 Putting Computers to Work: Software	166	(30)
Chapter 7 Operating Systems: Software That Runs the Show	196	(50)
Chapter 8 Numeric Processing	246	(38)
Chapter 9 Text Processing	284	(34)
Chapter 10 Databases	318	(36)
Chapter 11 Processing Images: Is Seeing Believing?	354	(54)
Chapter 12 Graphics: Creating Images	408	(50)
Chapter 13 Managing Digital Sound	458	(32)
Chapter 14 Video: I Want My DTV	490	(26)
Chapter 15 Data Compression	516	(22)
Chapter 16 Data Communications	538	(34)
Chapter 17 Local Area Networks	572	(24)
Chapter 18 The Internet and the World Wide Web	596	(42)
Chapter 19 Integrating and Delivering Multimedia	638	(40)
Chapter 20 Making Machines Smarter	678