Offers a wide range of IT strategy and systems development capabilities essential to plan, analyze, design and implement information systems. Features expert suggestions for meeting new customers, product and market requirements and reveals numerous fascinating truths about the possibilities for sustained cycle compression.

An introduction to CBT, looking in detail at how and when to use computers in training, how to design and write CBT courses, testing, and evaluation, what managers should know about computers and software and general development relevant to CBT.

Teach yourself the C++ programming language, learn how to write C++ programs relevant to your work, with the help of extensive but simple example programs you can type in and execute as they stand. The diskette provides the useful MKCLASS tool and offers larger programs covering every aspect of C++from classes, inheritance, and overloading to static members, templates, and exceptions. Find examples of linked lists, simplex organization, neural nets, and factuals, as well as concise introduction to the C language.

In a remarkably clear-eyed look at some of the major unexamined assumptions of our times, computer scientist Richard Crandall and philosopher Martin Levich look at the ideas underlying the Information Revolution. The six essays making up A Network Orange provide new views of such subjects as: Why market forces make your computer clumsy and inefficient. Why we must differentiate between machine intelligence and machine consciousness. Why the educational value of bulletin boards, chat rooms and other network forums is essentially nil. Why the concept of virtual reality is fraught with logical absurdities.

Recognizing the input of physicists and other researchers in the advancement of science and engineering, the authors provide an accessible guide to technical computing. Not just another UNIX or computer manual, this is a guide for coping with the complexities of accomplishing an entire scientific computing project from start to finish, complete with a disk of programs.
You will learn how to write and organize files and programs; debug programs; and visualize their results. The book is written so that you are not limited to one version of UNIX or one manufacturer's machine. In fact, the commands it contains have been widely tested in SUNS, IBMs, HPs, DEC, Crays, PC's, Macintoshes, and others.

This Primer is based on IEEE 1076-1993, offering an introduction to VDHL that can be understood by both electrical engineers and software specialists. It uses a subset of the language to introduce VDHL to readers at the beginnerφs level. Explains the complete constructs of the language using an example-based approach. Covers topics such as basic language elements, behavioral modeling, dataflow modeling, structural modeling, generics and configurations, subprograms and overloading, packages and libraries, advanced features, model simulation, and hardware modeling examples.

Get rid of that bookshelf full of expensive hardware books you've been using to study! Here's the second edition of the best-selling study guide for the A+ Core Module--now updated and expanded to cover the new version of the exam from the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). This study guide provides comprehensive coverage of each A+ objective, together with practical exercises and reference information. The CD contains A+ test-preparation software and information resources.

Here's the second edition of the best-selling A+: Windows/DOS Study Guide--updated and expanded for the new A+ exam from the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). This study guide provides comprehensive coverage of each A+ objective, together with practical exercises and reference information. The CD includes A+ test-preparation software and information resources.

Microsoft has had a strong impact on the browser market, and Internet Explorer has emerged as a standard. With the latest edition of Ross's introduction to Internet Explorer, readers get clear, concise instructions for using Internet Explorer's most practical features. Topics include setting up your account, using commands and functions, surfing the Internet, sending and receiving e-mail, and much more. This straightforward guide is perfect for anyone who has some basic familiarity with the PC, but is new to using the Internet.

Here's a practical, straightforward guide to Outlook 97, Microsoft's new Desktop Information Manager (DIM). Written for home and business users alike, this book is designed for fast results. Loaded with real-world examples and timesaving tips, readers will learn everything about using e-mail, scheduling appointments, creating contact lists, mastering to-do lists, sharing information, customizing Outlook, and more.

Here's the book the Access community relies on! Packed with tips, tricks, secrets, undocumented features, and tons of reusable source code, this indispensable guide is your ticket to developing bulletproof applications. Learn how to build more efficient databases, design better user interfaces, develop client/server applications, and plan for interoperability. The companion CD includes all examples from the book, a library of reusable code, ready-to-use subroutines and user-interface objects, and great freeware and shareware utilities.

Focused on the sixteen most essential Access skills, readers can get up to speed in a hurry and win those high-paying database jobs or promotions. Lots of graphics and step-by-step examples make this book an easy read. Power users will learn to create custom applications on or off the Web without writing a line of code. A glossary of database terms makes this book a must-have for every Access user.

This official Java-SIG book teaches experienced Java programmers the ins and outs of advanced techniques such as advance networking and remote access, distributed object programming, parallel programming, and advanced security techniques. CD-ROM includes sourcecode and useful software that readers can download to incorporate and build their own programs.

Filled with practical C functions, this state-of-the-art guide will allow filter designers to automate the design of analog and digital filters using the C programming language: Covers the design of elliptic filters which can be implemented by analog active or digital IIR filters; the design of FIR digital filters using windowing techniques and the Parks-McClellan algorithm; and calculates the filter coefficients for analog and digital filers utilizing C functions.