Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. What’s the big picture?
  • 1.2. How to use this guide
  • 1.3. About this guide
  • 1.4. Further reading
• 2. Data representation
• 3. Algorithms
• 4. Human-computer interaction and usability
• 5. Programming languages
• 6. Coding - Introduction
• 7. Compression coding
• 8. Encryption coding
• 9. Error control coding
• 10. Artificial Intelligence
  • 10.1. What’s the big picture?
  • 10.2. Chatterbots and The Turing Test
  • 10.3. The whole story!
  • 10.4. Further reading
• 11. Complexity and tractability
  • 11.1. What’s the big picture?
  • 11.2. Algorithms, problems, and speed limits
  • 11.3. Tractability
  • 11.4. The Travelling Salesman Problem
  • 11.5. Other intractable problems
  • 11.6. The whole story!
  • 11.7. Further reading
• 12. Formal languages
  • 12.1. What’s the big picture?
  • 12.2. Getting started
  • 12.3. Finite state automata
  • 12.4. Regular expressions
  • 12.5. Grammars and parsing
  • 12.6. The whole story!
  • 12.7. Glossary
  • 12.8. Further reading
• 13. Computer graphics
  • 13.1. What’s the big picture?
  • 13.2. Graphics transforms
  • 13.3. Drawing lines and circles
  • 13.4. The whole story!
  • 13.5. Further reading
• 14. Computer vision
  • 14.1. What’s the big picture?
  • 14.2. Lights, Camera, Action!
  • 14.3. Noise
  • 14.4. Face recognition
  • 14.5. Edge detection
  • 14.6. The whole story!
  • 14.7. Further reading
• 15. Network communication protocols
• 16. Software engineering
  • 16.1. What’s the big picture?
  • 16.2. Analysis: What do we build?
  • 16.3. Design: How do we build it?
  • 16.4. Testing: Did we Build the Right Thing / Does it Work?
  • 16.5. Software processes
  • 16.6. Agile software development
  • 16.7. The whole story!
  • 16.8. Further reading
• 17. Appendices
  • 17.1. Glossary
  • 17.2. Contributors

• Index
• Module Index
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