The Cartoon Guide to Computer Science
- Illustrator:
- Larry Gonick
- Description:
- The Cartoon Guide to Computer Science is a humorous, comics-format book about the serious topic of computer science. Three main topics are covered with amazing detail despite the simplicity of the comics medium: the evolution of human concepts about information, the basics of computer organization (data representation, basic logic gates, logic and arithmetic operations, the basic processing unit, the memory subsystem, the IO subsystem), and software theory and applications. This is a high-quality treatment of the computer organization elements. The computer gets an excellent treatment -- undergrad level, but still a textbook. Visionary description of applications.