Business Information Systems: Design an App for That
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Contributors: Frost, Pike, Kenyo, and Pels
Publisher: Saylor Foundation
License: CC BY-NC-SA
We set out to design an introductory course governed by four themes:
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Essentials of Geographic Information Systems
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Contributors: Campbell and Shin
Publisher: Saylor Foundation
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Essentials of Geographic Information Systems integrates key concepts behind the technology with practical concerns and real-world applications. Recognizing that many potential GIS users are nonspecialists or may only need a few maps, this book is designed to be accessible, pragmatic, and concise. Essentials of Geographic Information Systems also illustrates how GIS is used to ask questions, inform choices, and guide policy. From the melting of the polar ice caps to privacy issues associated with mapping, this book provides a gentle, yet substantive, introduction to the use and application of digital maps, mapping, and GIS.
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How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
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Contributors: Downey, Elkner, and Meyers
Publisher: Green Tea Press
License: CC BY
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python is an introduction to programming using Python.
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Physical Modeling in MATLAB - Version 4.0
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Contributor: Downey
Publisher: Green Tea Press
License: CC BY-NC
Modeling and simulation are powerful tools for explaining the world, making predictions, designing things that work, and making them work better. Learning to use these tools can be difficult; this book is my attempt to make the experience as enjoyable and productive as possible.
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The Little Book of Semaphores
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Contributor: Downey
Publisher: Green Tea Press
License: CC BY-NC-SA
The Little Book of Semaphores is a free (in both senses of the word) textbook that introduces the principles of synchronization for concurrent programming.
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Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++
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Contributor: Busbee
Publisher: OpenStax CNX
License: CC BY
Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++ is written by Kenneth Leroy Busbee, a faculty member at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. The materials used in this textbook/collection were developed by the author and others as independent modules for publication within the Connexions environment. Programming fundamentals are often divided into three college courses: Modular/Structured, Object Oriented and Data Structures. This textbook/collection covers the first of those three courses.
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Algorithms and Data Structures With Applications to Graphics and Geometry
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Contributors: Nievergelt and Hinrichs
Publisher: Global Text Project
License: CC BY
An introductory coverage of algorithms and data structures with application to graphics and geometry.
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Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction
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Contributor: Hailperin
Publisher: Max Hailperin
License: CC BY-SA
In this book, you will learn about all three kinds of interaction. In all three cases, interesting software techniques are needed in order to bring the computations into contact, yet keep them suffciently at arm's length that they don't compromise each other's reliability. The exciting challenge, then, is supporting controlled interaction. This includes support for computations that share a single computer and interact with one another, as your email and word processing programs do. It also includes support for data storage and network communication. This book describes how all these kinds of support are provided both by operating systems and by additional software layered on top of operating systems, which is known as middleware.
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Foundations of Computation
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Contributors: Critchlow and Eck
Publisher: Carol Crichlow and David Eck
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Foundations of Computation is a free textbook for a one-semester course in theoretical computer science. It has been used for several years in a course at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The course has no prerequisites other than introductory computer programming. The first half of the course covers material on logic, sets, and functions that would often be taught in a course in discrete mathematics. The second part covers material on automata, formal languages, and grammar that would ordinarily be encountered in an upper level course in theoretical computer science.
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Open Data Structures: An Introduction
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Contributor: Morin
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Offered as an introduction to the field of data structures and algorithms, Open Data Structures covers the implementation and analysis of data structures for sequences (lists), queues, priority queues, unordered dictionaries, ordered dictionaries, and graphs. Focusing on a mathematically rigorous approach that is fast, practical, and efficient, Morin clearly and briskly presents instruction along with source code.
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