Computer-Based Problem Solving Process

One side-effect of having made great leaps in computing over the last few decades, is the resulting over-abundance in software tools created to solve the diverse problems. Problem solving with computers has, in consequence, become more demanding; instead of focusing on the problem when conceptualizing strategies to solve them, users are side-tracked by the pursuit of even more programming tools (as available).

Computer-Based Problem Solving Process is a work intended to offer a systematic treatment to the theory and practice of designing, implementing, and using software tools during the problem solving process. This method is obtained by enabling computer systems to be more Intuitive with human logic rather than machine logic. Instead of software dedicated to computer experts, the author advocates an approach dedicated to computer users in general. This approach does not require users to have an advanced computer education, though it does advocate a deeper education of the computer user in his or her problem domain logic.

This book is intended for system software teachers, designers and implementers of various aspects of system software, as well as readers who have made computers a part of their day-today problem solving.

Contents:

• Systems Methodology:

  • Introduction to System Software
  • Formal Systems
  • Ad Hoc Systems
  • Common Systems in Software Development

• Computer Architecture and Functionality:

  • Hardware System
  • Functional Behavior of Hardware Components
  • Algorithmic Expression of a Hardware System
  • Using Computers to Solve Problems

• Software Tools Supporting Program Execution:

  • Computer Process Manipulation by Programs
  • Memory Management System
  • I/O Device Management System
  • Computation Activity and Its Management Tools

• Software Tools Supporting Program Development:

  • Problem Solving by Software Tools
  • Web-Based Problem Solving Process
  • Software Tool Development Illustration
  • Software Tools for Correct Program Development

• Computer Operation by Problem Solving Process:

  • Using First Computers to Solve Problems
  • Batch Operating System
  • Problem of Protection
  • Timing Program Execution
  • Efficiency of Batch Operating Systems
  • Convenience of the BOS
  • Real-Time Systems

Readership: Student, general public and professional.
Key Features:

• This is one of the few books in the market that promote programming as a problem solving process following Polya for mathematical problem solving
• This book consolidates the concepts of system methodology, computer architecture, system tools program execution into workflow of the four steps Polya problem solving process
• This book insists to hold the hands of readers to walk through the internal working of a computer system from problem deposition to hardware state transitions, a view that has been lost in most computer science curricula currently taught in universities and colleges