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- How hardware, operating systems and networks form computer systems all explained in a student-friendly style.
- 'Review questions' located at the end of the chapters and invite students to consider whether they have achieved the learning outcomes of the chapter before moving on to the next topic.
- 'Exercises' designed to encourage basic practice of a newly learned topic.
1. Setting the Scene.
2. Logic Gates and Simple Digital Circuits.
3. Using and Accessing Memory.
4. The Computer: An Interrupt Driven Mathematical Machine.
5. Secondary Storage Devices and Communication.
6. Interfacing to the Physical World.
7. Accessing and Processing Instructions.
8. Operating Systems: An Overview.
9. Networking Computers.
10. Data Communications and Transmission Media.
11. The Internet.
12. Aspects of Data Communications and Network Security.
2. Logic Gates and Simple Digital Circuits.
3. Using and Accessing Memory.
4. The Computer: An Interrupt Driven Mathematical Machine.
5. Secondary Storage Devices and Communication.
6. Interfacing to the Physical World.
7. Accessing and Processing Instructions.
8. Operating Systems: An Overview.
9. Networking Computers.
10. Data Communications and Transmission Media.
11. The Internet.
12. Aspects of Data Communications and Network Security.
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