Category: Textbooks

This textbook is intended for a 1-semester CS1 course sequence. The Brief Version contains the first 18 chapters of the Comprehensive Version. The first 13 chapters are appropriate for preparing the AP Computer Science exam. For courses in Java Programming. A fundamentals-first introduction to basic programming concepts and techniques Designed

Some great Visual Basic fundamentals. Concise and rich in practical examples, Starting Out With Visual Basic 8e (PDF) covers the features and tools of Visual Basic, and how and when to use them. The expert authors Tonny Gaddis and Kip R. Irvine introduce the fundamentals of Visual Basic in a very

This is an ebook for practitioners working in community-based healthcare along with educators of future researchers and practitioners exploring this practice field and for people with chronic disabilities and their families and carers. Community-Based Healthcare: The Search for Mindful Dialogues (PDF) invites readers to re-shape and re-think the way that community-based

Recent Advances in System Reliability Engineering (PDF) evaluates and describes the latest techniques, tools, strategies, and methods in this topic for a variety of applications. Special emphasis is put on modelling and simulation technology which is growing in influence in the industry and presents many challenges as well as opportunities

About one in four people in OECD countries are presently obese. This epidemic has far-reaching consequences for society, individuals and the economy. Using microsimulation modelling, OECD Health Policy Studies (PDF) analyses the burden of overweight and obesity in 52 countries (including OECD, European Union and G20 countries), presenting how overweight