This book presents leading-edge computing technologies, and is particularly appropriate for inroductory course sequences based on the curriculum recommendations of two key professional organizations—the ACM and the IEEE.The new Chapter 1 presents intriguing facts and figures. Our goal is to get you excited about studying computers and programming. The chapter includes a table of some of the research made possible by computers; current technology trends and hardware discussions; the data hierarchy; social networking; a table of business and technology publications and websites that will help you stay up-to-date with the latest technology news, trends and career opportunities; additional Making a Difference exercises and more. We focus on software engineering best practices. At the heart of the book is our sig- nature “live-code approach”—programming concepts are presented in the context of com- plete working programs, rather than in code snippets. Each C++ code example is accompanied by live sample executions, so you can see exactly what each program does when it’s run on a computer.
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