Introduction to Computing Systems or Web Style Guide

Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond

Author: Yale N Patt

Introduction to Computing Systems: From bits & gates to C & beyond, now in its second edition, is designed to give students a better understanding of computing early in their college careers in order to give them a stronger foundation for later courses. The book is in two parts: (a) the underlying structure of a computer, and (b) programming in a high level language and programming methodology.

To understand the computer, the authors introduce the LC-3 and provide the LC-3 Simulator to give students hands-on access for testing what they learn. To develop their understanding of programming and programming methodology, they use the C programming language. The book takes a "motivated" bottom-up approach, where the students first get exposed to the big picture and then start at the bottom and build their knowledge bottom-up. Within each smaller unit, the same motivated bottom-up approach is followed. Every step of the way, students learn new things, building on what they already know. The authors feel that this approach encourages deeper understanding and downplays the need for memorizing. Students develop a greater breadth of understanding, since they see how the various parts of the computer fit together.

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Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites

Author: Patrick J Lynch

Consistently praised in earlier editions as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide, now in its Third Edition, continues its tradition of emphasis on fundamentals. Focusing on the needs of web site designers in corporations, government, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions, the book explains established design principles and how they apply in web design projects in which information design, interface design, and efficient search and navigation are of primary concern.

 

New in this edition:

 

—a full chapter devoted to Universal Usability

—guidelines and techniques for creating universally usable designs

—a full chapter on Information Architecture and how best to promote its robust development

—information on Search Engine Optimization and the designs that improve it

—techniques for using Cascading Style Sheets for layouts and typographic design

—185 illustrations, all in full color

Donald A. Norman

At last, a book on the design of Web sites with the viewer in mind.

Booknews

This guide focuses on interface and graphic design principles underlying Web site design, and gives advice on issues ranging from planning and organizing goals, to design strategies for a site, to elements of individual page design. Addresses practical concerns of bending and adapting HTML to the purposes of graphic page design, and discusses issues and constraints of designing complex, multilayered sites. Includes a wealth of technical information on graphics and multimedia, illustrated with b&w photos and examples. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The New York Times - J.D. Biersdorfer

Staid and solid, the book is....sort of an Elements of Style for Webmasters, and the authors even invoke that classic handboook's injunction to "prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract."

What People Are Saying

Donald A. Norman
At last, a book on the design of Web sites with the viewer in mind....[It] intelligently and succinctly discusses all those topics so badly neglected by most Web sites. -- (Donald A. Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things and The Invisible Computer)

Craig Locatis
One of the few resources that discusses organizing information on the Web in ways that serve users. This guide addresses a critical need in a practical way. -- (Craig Locatis, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health)

E. R. Tufte
A style guide for the interface with real long-run value, showing us deep principles of design rather than simply fashion and technology. -- (Edward R. Tufte, Yale University)

Table of Contents:

1 Process 1
2 Universal Usability 51
3 Information Architecture 71
4 Interface Design 95
5 Site Structure 121
6 Page Structure 151
7 Page Design 171
8 Typography 205
9 Editorial Style 231
10 Forms and Applications 249
11 Graphics 267
12 Multimedia 301 Abbreviations 315 References 317 Illustration Credits 327 Index 329