Preface, Overview, Computers and Their Impact, Some Basic Concepts, Hardware, Computers Large and Small, Input and Output, The Central Processing Unit and Storage, Data Communication, Software, Programming: Process and Tools and Techniques, Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Personal-Productivity Software, File-Processing and Data-Base Systems, Computers: The Impact, People and Systems, Introduction to Business Systems, Management and System Analysis, Management Support and Expert Systems, The Automated Office, Automating Production, Our Automated Lives, Uses of Computers: Some Applications, Privacy and Computer Crime and Security, The Future of Computing: Trends and Prospects, Appendix: Programming in BASIC, Glossary, Index.
Preface, Overview, Computers and Their Impact, Some Basic Concepts, Hardware, Computers Large and Small, Input and Output, The Central Processing Unit and Storage, Data Communication, Software, Programming: Process and Tools and Techniques, Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Personal-Productivity Software, File-Processing and Data-Base Systems, Computers: The Impact, People and Systems, Introduction to Business Systems, Management and System Analysis, Management Support and Expert Systems, The Automated Office, Automating Production, Our Automated Lives, Uses of Computers: Some Applications, Privacy and Computer Crime and Security, The Future of Computing: Trends and Prospects, Appendix: Programming in BASIC, Glossary, Index.