Discovering Computers: Fundamentals, Fourth Edition (Shelly Cashman)

Discovering Computers: Fundamentals, Fourth Edition (Shelly Cashman), 9781423912095 (1423912098), Course Technology PTR, 2007

The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the finest textbooks in computer education. This book is our answer to the many requests we have received from instructors and students for a textbook that provides a succinct, yet thorough, introduction to computers.

In Discovering Computers: Fundamentals, Fourth Edition, you will find an educationally sound, highly visual, and easy-to-follow pedagogy that presents a complete, yet to the point, treatment of introductory computer subjects. Students will finish the course with a solid understanding of computers, how to use computers, and how to access information on the World Wide Web.

This fourth edition from the Shelly Cashman Series covers the same breadth, but with less depth, as Discovering Computers 2008: Complete. This title is ideal for a short course on computer concepts or in application software courses. The text offers an engaging solution to successfully teach students basic computer concepts with new exercises and tools on the Online Companion. Updated for currency, students will learn the latest trends in technology and computer concepts.

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