• Intro to Programming
  • 1.  Elements of Programming
    • 1.1  Your First Program
    • 1.2  Built-in Types of Data
    • 1.3  Conditionals and Loops
    • 1.4  Arrays
    • 1.5  Input and Output
    • 1.6  Case Study: PageRank
  • 2.  Functions
    • 2.1  Static Methods
    • 2.2  Libraries and Clients
    • 2.3  Recursion
    • 2.4  Case Study: Percolation
  • 3.  OOP
    • 3.1  Using Data Types
    • 3.2  Creating Data Types
    • 3.3  Designing Data Types
    • 3.4  Case Study: N-Body
  • 4.  Data Structures
    • 4.1  Performance
    • 4.2  Sorting and Searching
    • 4.3  Stacks and Queues
    • 4.4  Symbol Tables
    • 4.5  Case Study: Small World

• Computer Science
  • 5.  Theory of Computing
    • 5.1  Formal Languages
    • 5.2  Turing Machines
    • 5.3  Universality
    • 5.4  Computability
    • 5.5  Intractability
    • 9.9  Cryptography
  • 6.  A Computing Machine
    • 6.1  Representing Info
    • 6.2  TOY Machine
    • 6.3  TOY Programming
    • 6.4  TOY Virtual Machine
  • 7.  Building a Computer
    • 7.1  Boolean Logic
    • 7.2  Basic Circuit Model
    • 7.3  Combinational Circuits
    • 7.4  Sequential Circuits
    • 7.5  Digital Devices

• Beyond
  • 8.  Systems
    • 8.1  Library Programming
    • 8.2  Compilers
    • 8.3  Operating Systems
    • 8.4  Networking
    • 8.5  Applications Systems
  • 9.  Scientific Computation
    • 9.1  Floating Point
    • 9.2  Symbolic Methods
    • 9.3  Numerical Integration
    • 9.4  Differential Equations
    • 9.5  Linear Algebra
    • 9.6  Optimization
    • 9.7  Data Analysis
    • 9.8  Simulation

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  • Appendices
    • A.   Operator Precedence
    • B.   Writing Clear Code
    • C.   Glossary
    • D.   TOY Cheatsheet
    • E.   Matlab
  • Coursera MOOCs
    • Programming with a Purpose
    • Algorithms, Theory, Machines
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    • Algorithms, Theory, Machines
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Errata

Introduction to Computer Science.

For brevity, we have suppressed the spelling and grammatical errors.

• Here are the known errors in the third printing (May 2018) of the book.

• Here are the known errors in the second printing (December 2016) of the book.

• Here are the known errors in the first printing (June 2016) of the book.

• Here are the known errors in the studio-produced lectures slides and videos.

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