Using examples from the publishing industry, John Whitington introduces Computer Science to the uninitiated by exploring several questions. How do we decide where to put ink on a page to draw letters and pictures? How can computers represent all the world’s languages and writing systems? What exactly is a computer program, what and how does it calculate, and how can we build one?

<ASIN: 0957671121>

 Can we compress information to make it easier to store and quicker to transmit? How do newspapers print photographs with grey tones using just black ink and white paper? How are paragraphs laid out automatically on a page and split across multiple pages?

Author: John Whitington 
Publisher: Coherent Press
Date: February 22, 2016
Pages: 204
ISBN: 978-0957671126
Print: 0957671121
Category: General interest

John Whitington is also the author of OCaml from the Very Beginning, rated 4.5 by Mike James

Visit Book Watch Archive for hundreds more titles.

Follow @bookwatchiprog on Twitter or subscribe to I Programmer's Books RSS feed for each day's new addition to Book Watch and for new reviews.

To have new titles included in Book Watch contact  BookWatch@i-programmer.info