Review of
Fluency
4 With Information Technology, Skills, Concepts & Capabilities,
by Lawrence Snyder
ISBN 9780136091820
I have been
teaching an introduction to computers college level class for approximately 10
years and one aspect of the textbooks I have seen change over the years is a
reduction in the level of rigor. Material such as the basics of programming,
binary coding of messages, HTML, designing web pages, basic principles of
databases and the basics of machine language have been removed. That is not the
case with this book and it was very refreshing.
There are 24
chapters and chapters 18 through 22 demonstrate in-depth programming concepts,
a complete bean counter program is listed and explained. Chapters 7 through 10
cover the basic computer operations of the machine cycle and algorithms.
If you teach a
class in the basics of computers and want some depth to the content of your
text, this one will work for you.
This book was made available for free for review
purposes
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