Easy Computer Basics

First published in 2012, this title presents the basics of how ‘to do’ philosophy - what it is, how we can think, the nature of logic, some special terms - in a straightforward and easy to understand

Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder.We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. Programmers shape our everyday behavior: When they make something easy to do, we do more of it. When they make it hard or impossible, we do less of it.From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that interrogates who they are, how they think, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause.In pop culture and media, the people who create the code that rules our world are regularly portrayed in hackneyed, simplified terms, as ciphers in hoodies. Thompson goes far deeper, taking us close to some of the great programmers of our time, including the creators of Facebook's News Feed, Instagram, Google's cutting-edge AI, and more. Speaking to

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligenceCorrelation is not causation. This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why

Real Chemistry Experiments has 40 exciting and engaging experiments with a real-life STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) connection for kids 8-12.Full STEAM ahead! Become a better problem-solver, inventor, and innovator with these fascinating chemistry experiments. Each one has a clear purpose or question that's being asked, step-by-step instructions, a list of materials you'll need, questions to help you record your observations, and more. By the time you're through, you'll have chemistry for kids down to a science!This activity book includes experiments and activities with:Easy-to-find materials―From tap water and paper towels, to popsicle sticks and dish soap, the materials needed for these experiments are quick and easy to find.Real-life science―Learn the real chemistry behind how and why each experiment works, like why water and oil don't mix in Oily Oceans, how geodes form in Eggshell Geodes, and more.Chemistry basics―Get tons of info about chemistry and what it i

Programming concepts come to life in this kid-friendly intro to the basics of computer science and coding, with puzzles, games, and quirky characters.Welcome to the Coder Crew, where you're on a missi

Python is today's fastest growing programming language. This engaging and refreshingly different guide breaks down the skills into clear step-by-step chunks and explains the theory using brief easy-to-understand language. Rather than bamboozling readers with pages of mind-numbing technical jargon, this book includes 150 practical challenges, putting the power in the reader's hands. Through creating programs to solve these challenges the reader will quickly progress from mastering the basics to confidently using subroutines, a graphical user interface, and linking to external text, csv and SQL files. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to program with Python. In particular, students starting out in computer science and teachers who want to improve their confidence in Python will find here a set of ready-made challenges for classroom use.

Written in an easy-to-understand manner, this comprehensive textbook brings together both basic and advanced concepts of numerical methods in a single volume. Important topics including error analysis, nonlinear equations, systems of linear equations, interpolation and interpolation for Equal intervals and bivariate interpolation are discussed comprehensively. The textbook is written to cater to the needs of undergraduate students of mathematics, computer science, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and information technology for a course on numerical methods/numerical analysis. The text simplifies the understanding of the concepts through exercises and practical examples. Pedagogical features including solved examples and unsolved exercises are interspersed throughout the book for better understanding.

Published annually, this easy-to-navigate three-volume paperback set contains all current IIA content requirements in internal audit basics, internal audit practice, and internal audit knowledge eleme

Why publish a Reader? Today, it is relatively easy and convenient to switch on your computer and download an academic paper. However, as many scholars have experienced, historic references are difficu

A step-by-step visual guide to creating your own projects using Scratch 3.0.Techy kids will get familiar with Scratch 3.0 using this beginner's guide to coding. Difficult coding concepts become easy and fun to understand as budding programmers build their own projects using Scratch 3.0, the latest software from the world's most popular programming language for beginners.Make a Dino Dance Party or create your own electronic birthday cards. Build games, simulations, and mind-bending graphics as you discover the awesome things computer programmers can do with Scratch 3.0.Coding Projects in Scratch, 2nd Edition uses a visual step-by-step approach to split complicated code into manageable, easy-to-digest chunks, so that the most impressive projects become possible.Suitable for complete beginners, this book will give young readers a solid understanding of programming, preparingthem to create their very own projects from scratch, and even move on to more complex programming languages like Pyt

Learn the basics of Data Science through an easy to understand conceptual framework and immediately practice using RapidMiner platform. Whether you are brand new to data science or working on your ten

Teach kids the concepts of coding in easy-to-understand language and help them develop games of their own with The Everything Kids’ Scratch Coding Book!Understanding computer science is becoming

Find the courage to take on any free-motion quilting project in twenty-one days! Move beyond the basics with an easy, three-step process to move you from ordinary and extraordinary quilting. Learn how

Go beyond the basics with this up to date Arduino programming resourceTake your Arduino programming skills to the next level using the hands-on information contained in this thoroughly revised, easy t

The addition to bestselling author Christopher Harts Figure It Out! series offers essential tips and tricks that simplify the basics of drawing people. This is the easy way to learn how to draw

Learn the basics of knitting with 14 fresh and colourful patterns for babies. Easy projects and super simple instructions help beginners get started.

Learn how to draw the creatures and scenes of your wildest fantasies with this easy-to-follow manual. Built around a 20-page core of the basics—materials, the figure, perspective, light, and col

Beginning and intermediate chicken keepers don’t need to spend hours poring through extensive manuals and thick books—Carissa Bonham boils down chicken-keeping basics into 101 easy-to-understand and e

In a dynamic book sector such as "Leadership," it's easy to lose sight of the basics--the timeless concepts that continue to underpin much of the new thinking on the behavior of leaders. One of the UK

This is the most accessible, attractive, and easy-to-use beginner's guide to growing marijuana. In only 144 illustrated pages, High Times editor, Danny Danko, covers the basics of successful pot culti

Chinese is a fascinating language that can seem impossibly difficult to learn at first but is relatively easy if you focus on the spoken language. This user-friendly guide to the basics helps you lear

The Essential Vegetable Cookbook is the new standard reference for easy recipes and fundamental information on how to prep, cook, and eat more vegetables every day.If you don’t know how to prep an artichoke, following a recipe for Artichoke-Stuffed Mushrooms won’t be easy. Equal parts kitchen basics and recipes, The Essential Vegetable Cookbook offers everything you need to incorporate 30 of the most common vegetables into your everyday cooking.A must-have resource for omnivores, herbivores, and carnivores alike, this vegetable cookbook clearly organizes vegetable profiles and recipes by season for easy reference. Together with guidelines on how to prep, cook, pair, and eat every veggie, each chapter in this vegetable cookbook features 4 quick and simple recipes to make vegetables a staple at your table.How do you actually cook a pumpkin? What pairs well with asparagus? When is kale in season? The Essential Vegetable Cookbook teaches you all of this and more, with:Seasonal chapter orga

In this handsome hardcover gift edition of Pyrography Basics, nationally recognized artist and pyrographer Lora S. Irish makes it easy to learn the creative craft of woodburning. All that aspiring beg

Science as you've never seen it before.Illustrated with the latest CGI technology, this children's encyclopedia brings a groundbreaking new visual approach to the world of science. Crystal-clear computer-generated artworks pack the pages to reveal and explain spectacular aspects of the scientific world. Bursting with astonishing 3-D images, Science! reveals core science in stunning detail, from nanoparticles and elemental forces to the phenomenal wonders of the universe.Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this book is packed with essential information and quirky facts that will appeal to both curious kids and interested adults. Easy-to-read, informative text encourages reading, and families will find fun, new science facts on every page.Adopting an inventive approach to science that goes beyond the basic school curriculum, Science! interweaves core physics, chemistry, and biology topics with space exploration, life on Earth, and amazing views inside the human body.

Computer coding sounds intimidating to many people, but what if there was an easy-to-use, affordable device that could help teach this skill in a fun, innovative way? There is! Raspberry Pi is a tiny

This book bridges theoretical computer science and machine learning by exploring what the two sides can teach each other. It emphasizes the need for flexible, tractable models that better capture not what makes machine learning hard, but what makes it easy. Theoretical computer scientists will be introduced to important models in machine learning and to the main questions within the field. Machine learning researchers will be introduced to cutting-edge research in an accessible format, and gain familiarity with a modern, algorithmic toolkit, including the method of moments, tensor decompositions and convex programming relaxations. The treatment beyond worst-case analysis is to build a rigorous understanding about the approaches used in practice and to facilitate the discovery of exciting, new ways to solve important long-standing problems.

This book bridges theoretical computer science and machine learning by exploring what the two sides can teach each other. It emphasizes the need for flexible, tractable models that better capture not what makes machine learning hard, but what makes it easy. Theoretical computer scientists will be introduced to important models in machine learning and to the main questions within the field. Machine learning researchers will be introduced to cutting-edge research in an accessible format, and gain familiarity with a modern, algorithmic toolkit, including the method of moments, tensor decompositions and convex programming relaxations. The treatment beyond worst-case analysis is to build a rigorous understanding about the approaches used in practice and to facilitate the discovery of exciting, new ways to solve important long-standing problems.

This book explores the fundamentals of computer music and functional programming through the Haskell programming language. Functional programming is typically considered difficult to learn. This introduction in the context of creating music will allow students and professionals with a musical inclination to leverage their experience to help understand concepts that might be intimidating in more traditional computer science settings. Conversely, the book opens the door for programmers to interact with music by using a medium that is familiar to them. Readers will learn how to use the Euterpea library for Haskell (http://www.euterpea.com) to represent and create their own music with code, without the need for other music software. The book explores common paradigms used in algorithmic music composition, such as stochastic generation, musical grammars, self-similarity, and real-time interactive systems. Other topics covered include the basics of signal-based systems in Haskell, sound synt

An informative look at the theory, computer implementation, and application of the scaled boundary finite element method This reliable resource, complete with MATLAB, is an easy-to-understand in

Large dimensional random matrices (LDRM) with specific patterns arise in econometrics, computer science, mathematics, physics, and statistics. This book provides an easy initiation to LDRM. Through a

With its intuitive design and approachable instruction, Pencil Drawing: Cats is the perfect resource for new artists learning the basics of pencil drawing before moving on to more complex drawing subj

How can computer modeling and simulation tools be used to understand and analyze common situations and everyday problems? Readers will find here an easy-to-follow, enjoyable introduction for anyone ev

How can computer modeling and simulation tools be used to understand and analyze common situations and everyday problems? Readers will find here an easy-to-follow, enjoyable introduction for anyone ev

Planetary rings are among the most intriguing structures of our solar system and have fascinated generations of astronomers. Collating emerging knowledge in the field, this volume reviews our current understanding of ring systems with reference to the rings of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and more. Written by leading experts, the history of ring research and the basics of ring–particle orbits is followed by a review of the known planetary ring systems. All aspects of ring system science are described in detail, including specific dynamical processes, types of structures, thermal properties and their origins, and investigations using computer simulations and laboratory experiments. The concluding chapters discuss the prospects of future missions to planetary rings, the ways in which ring science informs and is informed by the study of other astrophysical disks, and a perspective on the field's future. Researchers of all levels will benefit from this thorough and engaging presentation.

For courses in computer crime. A complete, easy-to-understand introduction to computer crime Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism is a comprehensive introduction to the acts and theories of cyber crim

A fully updated tutorial on the basics of the Python programming language for science studentsPython is a computer programming language that is rapidly gaining popularity throughout the sciences. This

A fully updated tutorial on the basics of the Python programming language for science studentsPython is a computer programming language that is rapidly gaining popularity throughout the sciences. This

An invaluable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists, astronomers, and other calendar enthusiasts, The Ultimate Edition updates and expands the previous edition to achieve more accurate results and present new calendar variants. The book now includes coverage of Unix dates, Italian time, the Akan, Icelandic, Saudi Arabian Umm al-Qura, and Babylonian calendars. There are also expanded treatments of the observational Islamic and Hebrew calendars and brief discussions of the Samaritan and Nepalese calendars. Several of the astronomical functions have been rewritten to produce more accurate results and to include calculations of moonrise and moonset. The authors frame the calendars of the world in a completely algorithmic form, allowing easy conversion among these calendars and the determination of secular and religious holidays. LISP code for all the algorithms is available in machine-readable form.

An invaluable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists, astronomers, and other calendar enthusiasts, The Ultimate Edition updates and expands the previous edition to achieve more accurate results and present new calendar variants. The book now includes coverage of Unix dates, Italian time, the Akan, Icelandic, Saudi Arabian Umm al-Qura, and Babylonian calendars. There are also expanded treatments of the observational Islamic and Hebrew calendars and brief discussions of the Samaritan and Nepalese calendars. Several of the astronomical functions have been rewritten to produce more accurate results and to include calculations of moonrise and moonset. The authors frame the calendars of the world in a completely algorithmic form, allowing easy conversion among these calendars and the determination of secular and religious holidays. LISP code for all the algorithms is available in machine-readable form.

Published annually, this easy-to-navigate three-volume paperback set contains all current IIA content requirements in internal audit basics, internal audit practice, and internal audit knowledge eleme