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Issue: The Cartoon Guide to the Computer #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1991
 
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Publisher: FlagHarperCollins
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Indicia Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 260
ISBN: 0062730975
UPC/EAN: 978006273097890000
Price: $13.50 CAD
$10.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 17 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Formerly titled "The Cartoon Guide to Computer Science," when originally published in 1983. This is the first printing by HarperPerennial. (HarperPerennial first edition has prices of $9.95 USD and $12.95 CAD.)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: 7 3/8" x 9 1/4" (18.7 cm x 23.5 cm)
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Binding: Squarebound Paperback
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Genres: humorous, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): The Cartoon Guide to the Computer
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Also by Larry Gonick

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Publication Information

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Contents Page

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Part I The Ages of Information

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Genres: humorous, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): The Cartoon Guide to the Computer
Character(s): Claude Shannon (Bell Labs Engineer, 1916-2001); Al-Khwarismi (circa 780 AD - circa 850 AD); Niccolo Tartaglia (1499-1559); Isaac Newton (1643-1727); John Napier (1550-1617); Wilhelm Schickard (1592-1635); Blaise Pascal (1623-1662); Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716); Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834); Charles Babbage (1792-1871); Ada Lovelace (1815-1852); Herman Hollerith (1860-1929); Konrad Zuse (1910-1995); Howard Aiken (1900-1973); J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995); John Mauchly (1907-1980); John Von Neumann (1903-1957)
Synopsis: The history of mathematics and calculating machines from the beginning of mankind through the present, including several basic computer programming concepts.
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Part II Logical Spaghetti

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Feature(s): The Cartoon Guide to the Computer
Character(s): George Boole (1815-1864); Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
Synopsis: Discussions on how computer hardware works, including Logic Theory, Ram and Rom memory, registers, binary mathematics and other items.
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Part III Software

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Feature(s): The Cartoon Guide to the Computer
Character(s): Alan Turing (1912-1954)
Synopsis: Discussions about software, including various types of software, cryptography, and comparison's of various programming languages.
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In Conclusion

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Some Further Reading

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Disclose Notes: A list of other computer theory books that might interest the reader.
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Index

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About the Author

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The Cartoon Guide to the Computer

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Disclose Notes: Back cover. All-text teaser for the book, with very short quotes from "Omni", "Kliatt", "Computer Weekly", and "New Scientist." Also bar code.

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