The book, now in its Second Edition, follows the structure of the first edition. It introduces computer programming to a beginner using the programming language C. The version of C used is the one standardised by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI C). C has rapidly gained users due to its efficiency, availability of rich data structures, a large variety of operators, and its affinity to the UNIX operating system. C is a difficult language to learn if it is not methodically approached. The attempt has been to introduce the basic aspects of C to enable the student to quickly start...
The book, now in its Second Edition, follows the structure of the first edition. It introduces computer programming to a beginner using the programmin...
Advances in computers and communications have revolutionised the way we live. This has happened in a short span of sixty-five years. Today we wonder how people lived without access to mobile phones and the Internet. This book seeks to answer the following questions lucidly to a non-specialist general reader: How did this revolution happen? What groundbreaking inventions led to this revolution? Why are they groundbreaking inventions? Who were the innovators and inventors of these technologies? What led them to these inventions? Fifteen groundbreaking inventions:...
Advances in computers and communications have revolutionised the way we live. This has happened in a short span of sixty-five years. Today we wonder h...