Computers category: 49053 books
Computers, Curriculum, and Cultural Change
An Introduction for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Computers, Curriculum, and Cultural Change: An Introduction for Teachers, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to using computers in educational settings. What distinguishes this text from others on the topic is its focus on:
*the issue of how computers are redefining our culture and society...
by Robert St. Amant
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Computing isn't only (or even mostly) about hardware and software; it's also about the ideas behind the technology. In Computing for Ordinary Mortals, computer scientist Robert St. Amant explains this "really interesting part" of computing, introducing basic computing concepts and strategies in a...
by Frederick Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Calls for improving education have been loud starting at the top with American presidents. Little improvement in schooling has resulted. Technology has dramatically changed and improved countless other fields but not education despite the millions of computers that schools have added in classrooms.
If...
The History of Visual Magic in Computers
How Beautiful Images are Made in CAD, 3D, VR and AR
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
If you have ever looked at a fantastic adventure or science fiction movie, or an amazingly complex and rich computer game, or a TV commercial where cars or gas pumps or biscuits behaved liked people and wondered, “How do they do that?”, then you’ve experienced the magic of 3D worlds generated...
Computers and Networks in the Age of Globalization
IFIP TC9 Fifth World Conference on Human Choice and Computers August 25–28, 1998, Geneva, Switzerland
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
In modernity, an individual identity was constituted from civil society, while in a globalized network society, human identity, if it develops at all, must grow from communal resistance. A communal resistance to an abstract conceptualised world, where there is no possibility for perception and experience...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Computer technology has impacted the practice of medicine in dramatic ways. Imaging techniques provide noninvasive tools which alter the diag nostic process. Sophisticated monitoring equipment presents new levels of detail for both patient management and research. In most of these high technology...
The Digital Hand
Volume II: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
The Digital Hand, Volume 2, is a historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors over the past half century. It is past of a sweeping three-volume description of how management...
by Guy Hart-Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Learn how to deploy Raspberry Pi computers in a classroom or lab situation and how to navigate the hardware and software choices you face.
Deploying Raspberry Pi in the Classroom equips you with the skills and knowledge to plan and execute a deployment of Raspberry Pi computers in the classroom. ...
by Earnest Long
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Computers can be so useful! You can do hobbies on them, get movies and books, watch documentaries and soaps, get advice and information, news and sport. As well, you can use them to help you with a diet and exercise plan, look up health advice. Really, they are like an old-fashioned TV, the library,...
Advances in Computers
Emerging Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
This is volume 73 of Advances in Computers. This series, which began publication in 1960, is the oldest continuously published anthology that chronicles the ever- changing information technology field. In these volumes we publish from 5 to 7 chapters, three times per year, that cover the latest changes...
Computers for Seniors
Email, Internet, Photos, and More in 14 Easy Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Computers for Seniors is a step-by-step guide that will take you all the way from pressing the "On" button on your new computer to being a confident user who can send email to family and friends, shop online safely, read the latest news, watch funny YouTube videos, share cute pictures of...
Computing in Organizations
Myth and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Is any image in modern times more evocative of social change than the computer? Popular mythology ascribes extraordinary powers to computers in the ordering of human affairs. Computers are seen as instruments of social transformation and economic change. Indeed, it is hard not to find computers...
Making Music with Computers
Creative Programming in Python
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Teach Your Students How to Use Computing to Explore Powerful and Creative IdeasIn the twenty-first century, computers have become indispensable in music making, distribution, performance, and consumption. Making Music with Computers: Creative Programming in Python introduces important concepts and skills necessary to generate music with computers.
Computer Maintenance Hacks
15 Simple Practical Hacks to Optimize, Speed Up and Make Computer Faster
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Unlock The Keys To Optimize, Speed Up And Make Computer Faster
Computers can be both a blessing and a never-ending source of frustration.
With the internet, Skype, email, and other software programs, computers are great for accessing all sorts of information and the world around us;...