Computing in the Web Age

A Web-Interactive Introduction

By: Robert J. Dilligan

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Paperback | 31 October 1998

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This book reflects thirty years of experience in the applications of computer technology to literary research and instruction and in consulting work in office automation and system integration. In that time I have again and again found myself in the position of having to introduce students, both undergraduate and graduate, colleagues and clients to the fundamentals of computer hardware and software. Over the years, as computers became both central and commonplace in professional life, I have been aware of changing attitudes toward this technology. From attitudes that ranged from the disdain of platonic dialecticians for mere technology to intimidation bordering at times almost on terror, people have moved to incorporate this new technology into their frame of reference ( humani nil a me alienum ). The development of the microprocessor and its subsequent use for word processing marked one important watershed. The widespread use of word processors made it more likely than not that people would own their own computers, at least at work, and use them as part of their work-a-day activities. But while word processing provided some increased familiarity with computers, it did not lead most indivi- als much beyond a knowledge of the usual incantations needed to control the MultiMate or Nota Bene or Word Perfect golam and, as a result of unhappy experience, a begrudging acceptance of the need to make back up copies of important files.

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`The text is easy to follow and quite readable.... recommend the book as additional material for classes in computer science, especially in computer programming methods. It is also suitable as outside reading for teachers and students of information science who are willing to experiment with diverse approaches to information technology.'
Computing Reviews (March 1999)

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Introduction	p. 1
From ENIAC to the World Wide Web to	p. 7
Computing on the World Wide Web	p. 7
ENIAC and the Development of the Modern Computer	p. 8
EDVAC: von Neumann Architecture	p. 13
von Neumann Architecture: An Overview	p. 15
Disk Drives	p. 17
The Rise and Fall of Mainframe Computers	p. 20
The History of HTML: 1969 and All That	p. 22
The Development of the Internet	p. 30
Self-Willed Machines: The Future of the Computer	p. 36
Binary Numbers, ASCII Code, and the Turing Machine	p. 45
Binary Numbers	p. 45
Random Access Memory	p. 57
The Quick Brown Fox	p. 61
The Turing Machine	p. 74
The CPU as a Turing Machine	p. 89
A Virtual Machine	p. 89
Swapping Values in Memory	p. 97
Program Compilation	p. 103
Program Loading and Execution	p. 108
How Computers Count	p. 115
Branching and Looping	p. 118
Calculating Tables of Numbers: Homage to Charles Babbage	p. 122
Varieties of CPUs	p. 127
The World According to Programmers	p. 129
Structured, Object-Oriented Programming	p. 129
Programming a Graphical User Interface	p. 134
Algorithms + Data Structures + Interfaces = Programs	p. 145
Designing a Graphical User Interface	p. 147
Downloading JAVA Programs and the JRE	p. 149
The Word Frequency Program	p. 151
Key Word in Context File Search	p. 162
Key Word in Context Directory Search	p. 166
Connections to the World Wide Web	p. 171
Networks: Why and How	p. 171
Internet Software	p. 176
Client/Server Programming	p. 178
The Inscape of Netscape	p. 184
Searching the Web	p. 188
Saving Information from the Web	p. 202
Downloading Software	p. 204
HTML Programming and Web Publishing	p. 217
From Print to Hypertext	p. 217
Fonts, Text Alignment, and Special Characters	p. 230
Multimedia: Colors, Images, Sound, and Video	p. 233
Capturing Web Images from the Computer Screen	p. 236
Compressing Images	p. 239
Positioning and Sizing Images on Web Pages	p. 242
Obtaining Images from the Web	p. 245
Web Video and Sound Applications	p. 246
Publishing on the Web: FTP and a Touch of UNIX	p. 250
Glossary	p. 265
Turing Machine Trace Files	p. 279
Turing Machine Program 1 Output	p. 279
Turing Machine Program 2 Output	p. 282
Turing Machine Program 3 Output	p. 286
Assembler Program Execution Trace Files	p. 293
Program Swap Trace File	p. 293
Program Count Trace File	p. 297
Program Loop Trace File	p. 301
Downloading JAVA Programs for Windows	p. 315
Software Access and Installation	p. 315
Downloading the Self-Extracting Archive	p. 316
Downloading and Installing JAVA Runtime Environment (JRE)	p. 321
Running JAVA Applications Using the JAVA Runtime Environment	p. 324
Notes	p. 327
Index	p. 335
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