The whole of computer science from logical ELSE to artificial intelligence,
in 509 pages? Alan Bierman’s Great Ideas in Computer Science makes a decent stab
with its Unixisms and USisms. Missing: indexing methods, connectionist AI, Alan
Turing . . . In Britain, this text is post-A-level, but pre-university. Second
edition, published by MIT Press, £24.95, ISBN 0262522233.
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