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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Computer Science from the Bottom Up
Ian Wienand · Red Hat
Computer science is often taught from the "top down"; applications, high level programming, software design and development theory, possibly data structures. Students will probably be exposed to binary, hopefully binary logic, possibly even some low level concepts such as registers, opcodes and the like at a superficial level. This book aims to move in completely the opposite direction, working from operating systems fundamentals through to how those applications are complied and executed.
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CPSI10003 Microcomputer Applications 1 - Part 4: Microsoft PowerPoint
LueCrecy Ragan & Michael Hostetler · Arkansas State University-Beebe
This book focuses on teaching the essentials of creating clear and professional PowerPoint presentations, starting with strong planning, audience awareness, and effective design. It then builds on these basics by showing how to enhance presentations with animations, transitions, and multimedia while maintaining consistency and clarity, helping readers deliver polished and engaging presentations.
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Foundations of Information Systems
OpenStax · OpenStax
Foundations of Information Systems is designed to engage students through a combination of practical, real-world applications and thought-provoking scenarios that promote critical thinking and a deeper understanding of core concepts. The pedagogical approach is centered on making information systems relevant to students from an array of backgrounds and career interests.
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A First Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Louis Scharf · Colorado State University
This book was written for an experimental freshman course at the University of Colorado. The course is now an elective that the majority of our electrical and computer engineering students take in the second semester of their freshman year, just before their first circuits course.
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Pharo by Example 5.0
Ducasse, Zagidulin, Hess, and Chloupis · LibreTexts
Pharo by Example 5.0, intended for both students and developers, will guide you gently through the Pharo language and environment by means of a series of examples and exercises. In Pharo everything is an object, and anything can change at run-time under your fingers. Pharo is written in itself so you can explore a complete world. You can feel and talk to objects.
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Oceans of Data
Tasha Gownaris · Gettysburg College
This introductory oceanography book explores the oceans as interconnected geological, chemical, physical, and biological systems. Topics include plate tectonics, ocean sediments, seawater properties, climate and circulation, carbon cycling, ocean acidification, El Niño, and marine productivity, showing how ocean processes shape Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and environment.
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Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
Jin He · Fresno City College
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Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
Mark A. Fitch · University of Alaska Anchorage
In class materials for an introduction to logic, proof, enumeration, relations, and graph theory for lower division undergraduate students of computer science and computer systems engineering. These materials were designed to introduce concepts of logic and discrete mathematics via carefully picked problems that test understanding of definitions. Another source of exercises is required at this time.
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Byte of Python
Swaroop C H · LibreTexts
"A Byte of Python" is a free book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for a beginner audience. If all you know about computers is how to save text files, then this is the book for you.
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Spreadsheet software for engineering: an applied guide
Julio Terán & Phillip Chvosta · North Carolina State University
Spreadsheet Software for Engineering: An Applied Guide is a free, online textbook designed to provide engineering students with comprehensive, practical knowledge of spreadsheet applications in engineering contexts. The textbook was designed from the ground up to be interactive and engaging for the modern 21st century learner.
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Laboratory Manual - Computer Programming with Python, Multisim and TINA/4E
James M. Fiore · Mohawk Valley Community College
This laboratory manual is intended for use in an introductory computer programming course for electrical engineering technology students. It begins with a basic explanation of schematic capture and simulation tools and proceeds to the Python programming language.
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Data and the Modern World
Alan Polansky · Northern Illinois University
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Think Java - How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
Allen B. Downey · lin College
Think Java is an introduction to computer science and programming intended for readers with little or no experience. We start with the most basic concepts and are careful to define all terms when they are first used. The book presents each new idea in a logical progression. Larger topics, like recursion and object-oriented programming, are divided into smaller examples and introduced over the course of several chapters.
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Algorithm Design and Analysis
Godfry Justo · African Virtual University
There are both practical and theoretical reasons to study algorithms. From a practical standpoint, you have to know a standard set of important algorithms from different areas of computing; in addition, you should be able to design new algorithms and analyze their efficiency. From the theoretical standpoint, the study of algorithms, sometimes called algorithmics, has come to be as the cornerstone of computer science.
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CPSI10003 Microcomputer Applications 1 - Microsoft Access
LueCrecy Ragan · Arkansas State University-Beebe
This book introduces Microsoft Access as a practical tool for organizing, managing, and analyzing data in a business environment. It starts with the basics of database design, including tables, forms, queries, and reports, and explains how to keep data accurate and well-organized. It then builds into more advanced skills, such as creating complex queries, designing user-friendly forms, generating clear reports, and automating tasks with macros and VBA. Overall, the book shows how Access can be u
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C++ Data Structures
Patrick McClanahan · San Joaquin Delta College
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Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
Mike Caulfield · Mike Caulfield · 2017
The web gives us many such strategies and tactics and tools, which, properly used, can get students closer to the truth of a statement or image within seconds. For some reason we have decided not to teach students these specific techniques. As many people have noted, the web is both the largest propaganda machine ever created and the most amazing fact-checking tool ever invented. But if we haven't taught our students those capabilities is it any surprise that propaganda is winning? This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly.
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The DEI Metadata Handbook: A Guide to Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Description
H. E. Wintermute; Heather Campbell; Christopher Dieckman · Iowa State University Digital Press · 2024
Written primarily for professionals in library and information science but with applicability to archives and other information management industries, this handbook provides an overview of metadata work that focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). DEI metadata work has several goals: enhancing diverse representation in descriptive metadata; improving discovery of diverse resources; and mitigating negative effects of inaccurate, outdated, or offensive terminology. Readers will gain a broad awareness of DEI-related issues in metadata creation and management; learn techniques for retroactively reviewing and updating existing metadata to address these issues; and develop strategies to create metadata that better meets DEI needs.
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Social Data Analysis
Mikaila Arthur; Roger Clark · Rhode Island College Digital Publishing · 2021
Social data analysis enables you, as a researcher, to organize the facts you collect during your research. Your data may have come from a questionnaire survey, a set of interviews, or observations. They may be data that have been made available to you from some organization, national or international agency or other researchers. Whatever their source, social data can be daunting to put together in a way that makes sense to you and others. This book is meant to help you in your initial attempts to analyze data. In doing so it will introduce you to ways that others have found useful in their attempts to organize data. You might think of it as like a recipe book, a resource that you can refer to as you prepare data for your own consumption and that of others. And, like a recipe book that teaches you to prepare simple dishes, you may find this one pretty exciting. Analyzing data in a revealing way is at least as rewarding, we’ve found, as it is to cook up a yummy cashew carrot paté or a steaming corn chowder. We’d like to share our pleasure with you.
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Arcade Expression Crash Course with COVID-19 data
Wing Cheung · Wing Cheung · 2022
Written for ArcGIS Pro 2.5