Multimedia Technology - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Networking & Telecommunications
Log in to track your reading progress.
Overview
Ken Abernethy and Tom Allen take an entirely fresh look at the introductory computing course, and teach the skills readers need to understand, create, work and communicate using digital media and networks. While most computer users are proficient in word processing, the worlds of image processing, digital sound, multimedia presentations, know-bots, MUDs, and MOOs are undiscovered territory for many. To be able to use these new and interesting capabilities, computer users must achieve a new standard of computer literacy. The computer literacy standard presented in this book is more dynamic and more conceptual than those of the past. The authors show how the computer and its associated devices and networks - or the digital domain - provides a new and fundamental communications paradigm for the twenty-first century.Editorials
Booknews
For those ready to expand their computer literacy beyond word processing basics, two computer experts introduce the domains of sights, sounds, multimedia presentations, the Web/ HTML, spreadsheets, data communications, computer networks, and artificial intelligence. Includes chapter review questions, projects, a supporting web site, an extensive glossary demystifying terms from ADSR to ZCAV, and illustrations. A CD-ROM would have been welcome. Appropriate as a textbook for sundry introductory level computer courses. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
February 7, 1999
Publisher
Pacific Grove, CA : Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., c1999.
Pages
776
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780534955168