David Makinson: 3 books

Just a One Night Stand is a dramatic novel set in mid-1960s England and tells the story of unmarried nineteen-year-old Marion McKenzie who finds herself pregnant after drunken sex with Martin Corrigan, a farmer's son. He goes to Cambridge University unaware of his paternity. Once she realises she...

This easy-to-follow textbook introduces the mathematical language, knowledge and problem-solving skills that undergraduates need to study computing. The language is in part qualitative, with concepts such as set, relation, function and recursion/induction; but it is also partly quantitative, with...

The first part of this preface is for the student; the second for the instructor. But whoever you are, welcome to both parts. For the Student You have finished secondary school, and are about to begin at a university or technical college. You want to study computing. The course includes some mathematics...