Table of contents :
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Hardware
1. What Is a Computer?
1.1 Logical Construction
1.1.1 Processor
1.1.2 Primary memory
1.1.3 Secondary storage
1.1.4 Et cetera
1.2 Physical Construction
1.3 Moore’s Law
1.4 Summary
2. Bits, Bytes, and Representation of Information
2.1 Analog versus Digital
2.2 Analog-Digital Conversion
2.2.1 Digitizing images
2.2.2 Digitizing sound
2.2.3 Digitizing movies
2.2.4 Digitizing text
2.3 Bits, Bytes, and Binary
2.3.1 Bits
2.3.2 Powers of two and powers of ten
2.3.3 Binary numbers
2.3.4 Bytes
2.4 Summary
3. Inside the Processor
3.1 The Toy Computer
3.1.1 The first Toy program
3.1.2 The second Toy program
3.1.3 Branch instructions
3.1.4 Representation in memory
3.2 Real Processors
3.3 Caching
3.4 Other Kinds of Computers
3.5 Summary
Wrap-up on Hardware
Part II: Software
4. Algorithms
4.1 Linear Algorithms
4.2 Binary Search
4.3 Sorting
4.4 Hard Problems and Complexity
4.5 Summary
5. Programming and Programming Languages
5.1 Assembly Language
5.2 High-Level Languages
5.3 Software Development
5.3.1 Libraries, interfaces, and development kits
5.3.2 Bugs
5.4 Intellectual Property
5.4.1 Trade secret
5.4.2 Trademark
5.4.3 Copyright
5.4.4 Patent
5.4.5 Licenses
5.5 Standards
5.6 Open Source Software
5.7 Summary
6. Software Systems
6.1 Operating Systems
6.2 How an Operating System Works
6.2.1 System calls
6.2.2 Device drivers
6.3 Other Operating Systems
6.4 File Systems
6.4.1 Secondary storage file systems
6.4.2 Removing files
6.4.3 Other file systems
6.5 Applications
6.6 Layers of Software
6.7 Summary
7. Learning to Program
7.1 Programming Language Concepts
7.2 A First JavaScript Program
7.3 A Second JavaScript Program
7.4 Loops and Conditionals
7.5 JavaScript Libraries and Interfaces
7.6 How JavaScript Works
7.7 A First Python Program
7.8 A Second Python Program
7.9 Python Libraries and Interfaces
7.10 How Python Works
7.11 Summary
Wrap-up on Software
Part III: Communications
8. Networks
8.1 Telephones and Modems
8.2 Cable and DSL
8.3 Local Area Networks and Ethernet
8.4 Wireless
8.5 Cell Phones
8.6 Bandwidth
8.7 Compression
8.8 Error Detection and Correction
8.9 Summary
9. The Internet
9.1 An Internet Overview
9.2 Domain Names and Addresses
9.2.1 Domain Name System
9.2.2 IP addresses
9.2.3 Root servers
9.2.4 Registering your own domain
9.3 Routing
9.4 TCP/IP Protocols
9.4.1 IP, the Internet Protocol
9.4.2 TCP, the Transmission Control Protocol
9.5 Higher-Level Protocols
9.5.1 Telnet and SSH: remote login
9.5.2 SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
9.5.3 File sharing and peer-to-peer protocols
9.6 Copyright on the Internet
9.7 The Internet of Things
9.8 Summary
10. The World Wide Web
10.1 How the Web Works
10.2 HTML
10.3 Cookies
10.4 Active Content in Web Pages
10.5 Active Content Elsewhere
10.6 Viruses, Worms and Trojan Horses
10.7 Web Security
10.7.1 Attacks on clients
10.7.2 Attacks on servers
10.7.3 Attacks on information in transit
10.8 Defending Yourself
10.9 Summary
Part IV: Data
11. Data and Information
11.1 Search
11.2 Tracking
11.3 Social Networks
11.4 Data Mining and Aggregation
11.5 Cloud Computing
11.6 Summary
12. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
12.1 Historical Background
12.2 Classical Machine Learning
12.3 Neural Networks and Deep Learning
12.4 Natural Language Processing
12.5 Summary
13. Privacy and Security
13.1 Cryptography
13.1.1 Secret-key cryptography
13.1.2 Public-key cryptography
13.2 Anonymity
13.2.1 Tor and the Tor Browser
13.2.2 Bitcoin
13.3 Summary
14. What Comes Next?
Notes
Glossary
Index