Foundations of Computer Science by Lawrence C Paulson
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Foundations of Computer Science by Lawrence C Paulson
Foundations of Computer Science by Lawrence C Paulson
This
note has two objectives. First is to teach programming. Second is to present
some fundamental principles of computer science, especially algorithm design.
Major topics covered includes: Recursive Functions, O Notation: Estimating
Costs in the Limit, Lists, Sorting, Datatypes and Trees, Dictionaries and
Functional Arrays, Queues and Search Strategies, Functions as Values, List
Functionals, Polynomial Arithmetic, Sequences, or Lazy Lists, Elements of
Procedural Programming, and Linked Data Structures.
This pdf provides a comprhensive overview
about general computer science, provides examples and various related topics. The
core of the course delves into the representation and computation with a focus
on discrete mathematics. The subsequent section on programming delves into
Standard ML, recursion and imperative features and encoding of programs as
strings. The course progresses to Boolean algebra and Propositional logic and
machine-oriented calculi like analytical tableaux and resolution.
This PDF covers the
following topics related to Computer Science : Data the raw
material—Representing information, Putting Computers to Work—Algorithms, Telling
Computers What To Do—Representing Procedures, Really hard
problems—Intractability, Sharing secrets and fighting crime-Cryptography, The
human face of computing-Interacting with computers.
This
lecture note explains the following topics: Cluster Computing, Scalable Parallel
Computer Architectures, Components for Clusters, Cluster Middleware and Single
System Image, Evolution of Metacomputing, Load Sharing and Balancing, Grid
Computing, Cloud Computing, Virtual Machine and its Provisioning, Time and
Space-shared Provisioning.
Foundations of
Computer Science covers subjects that are often found split between a discrete
mathematics course and a sophomore-level sequence in computer science in data
structure. So here the author's intention is to select the
mathematical foundations with an eye toward what the computer user really needs,
rather than what a mathematician might choose.