Books in the Grassroots series

An introductory, tutorial style text covering the basics of UNIX and Linux for the complete beginner, this is a comprehensive and well written introduction to these operating systems. UNIX and Linux are two of the most commonly used operating systems within the educational and corporate worlds and are growing in popularity.

Intended to follow an introductory HCI course, it introduces the student to the engineering skills necessary to build interfaces. It is part of the Grassroots series which provides core, concise texts at affordable prices across a range of computing courses.

Input/Output is dealt with over two chapters: Chapter 5 concentrates on the high-level, device independent aspects, while Chapter 6 looks at low-level aspects such as the interface with hardware, control of devices, and file organisation on disk.

"Neural Networks" provides a gentle introduction to the subject, for undergraduates from computer science and electrical engineering degrees. This updated and revised second edition assumes no prior knowledge and sets out to describe what neural nets are, what they do, and how they do it.

Internet Technology and E-Commerce is an introductory text that provides the reader with enough experience to start building a site that can generate revenue. This book provides an overview of the fundamental concepts and essential technologies so that the reader can go on to use cutting edge techniques successfully.

This book describes how a computer works and explains how the various hardware components are organized and interconnected to provide a platform upon which programs can be executed.

Whilst many of the textbooks within this field give an in-depth treatment of graphics theory, this title instead seeks to provide the reader with a concise survey of the more interesting graphical features (both 2 and 3 dimensional) that are currently available in Java and Java 3D.

Written especially for students with a modest mathematical background, this text introduces discrete mathematics at a gentle pace, and with an informal style, but without compromising the need for correct methodology. The new edition includes an expanded section on encryption, additional examples and many more exercises.