Foundations of CS, C ed

This book developed from notes for a two-quarter course at Stanford ”” called CS109: Introduction to Computer Science ”” that serves a number of goals. The first goal is to give beginning computer science majors a solid foundation for further study. However, computing is becoming increasingly important in a much wider range of scientific and engineering disciplines. Therefore, a second goal is to give those students who will not take advanced courses in computer science the conceptual tools that the field provides. Finally, a more pervasive goal is to expose all students not only to programming concepts but also to the intellectually rich foundations of the field.