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The Software Side of Computer Science – Computer Programming

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Still following Turing’s fundamental conception of Computation as having two indissoluble complementary sides, namely, hardware and what we now call software, as implied by the ideas in his groundbreaking 1936 paper and other papers, in this Chap. 4 we give a description of the Software side of Computer Science. We present the hardware side in the next chapter. We choose this ordering of presenting the two sides because, as we shall explain in the next chapter, the conception and design of a new computer begins mainly with considerations of its software as defining its major functions and then continues with the hardware elements providing the physical devices to implement these functions.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Edward K. Blum

  2. University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Walter Savitch

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    Edward K. Blum

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    Alfred V. Aho

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Blum, E.K., Savitch, W. (2011). The Software Side of Computer Science – Computer Programming. In: Blum, E., Aho, A. (eds) Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1168-0_4

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