Computer Science Principles

The Foundational Concepts of Computer Science - For AP® Computer Science Principles

De: Kevin Hare

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

5th Edition - New for 2024

A great intro to Computer Science concepts for all ages. Perfect for:

• AP Computer Science Principles (AP-CSP)
• Teacher Certification Tests (PRAXIS, GACE, etc.)
• Integrated Digital Technology
• CS Foundations
• Exploring Computer Science
• Curious kids and adults
• Everyone!

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The 5th edition comes with several updates, including:

• Computing Systems
• Deeper dive into CPU/GPU
• More on logic gate
• Other updates
• And more!

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Computer science is the world's fastest growing field of study, and this growth is showing no signs of slowing down. As a new field, computer science can seem intimidating, but it should not be scary to learn or difficult to understand. If you have ever turned on a phone or surfed the Internet then you have used a computer and should have a basic understanding of what happens when you click the mouse or touch the screen—and how fast it happens! Computer Science Principles introduces the creative side of computing. Once you've made your way through this book, you'll be editing photos, designing websites, coding JavaScript, and getting organized with spreadsheets—and along the way you'll learn the foundational concepts of computer science. How do computers convert information into ones and zeros and send it thousands of miles in a blink of the eye? What is an IP address? What do TCP/IP, DNS, HTML, and CSS stand for? How can a hard drive store large movies and thousands of songs? How can secrets be sent in plain sight? These questions—and more—are answered in Computer Science Principles.

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Units include:

1. Hardware, Software, Number Systems, and Boolean Expressions
2. Pixels and Images
   2.5. Adobe Photoshop
3. Compressing Data
4. Storing Data: Spreadsheets and Databases
5. Protecting Data: Heuristics, Security, and Encryption
6. The Internet
7. Web Design: HTML and CSS
8. Programming: JavaScript
9. Impact of Computing
10. Important Vocabulary

How easy it is to digest all that information

I really appreciated the way it was broken down to be so understandable even without having prior knowledge it was explained in such a way that I was able to follow along and absorb the information instead of it overflowing .. only thing that could improve is the voice and words at certain points become blended together and monotoned when repeating the same words back to back multiple times over.

Terribly read by AI...

I wonder if the author even spot checked this "audiobook." It's read by text-to-speech AI, which fails at pronouncing concepts correctly or consistently, and reads "2^1" as "two-hundred one," confusing the average listener. I got 30 minutes in before I couldn't take it anymore. The content of this book might be good, but it's inaccessible due to the terrible narration.

AI Reading

While I appreciate the innovation we have made in AI, I don’t necessarily like it reading to me.