Table of Contents

This is the detailed table of contents for The Most Comples Machine: A Survey of Computers and Computing, by David Eck. You can also read the preface from the book and short chapter summaries.
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: What Computers Do
  • Chapter 2. Teaching Silicon to Compute
  • Chapter 3. Building a Computer
  • Chapter 4. Theoretical Computers
  • Chapter 5. Real Computers
  • Chapter 6. Programming
  • Chapter 7. Subroutines and Recursion
  • Chapter 8. Real Programming Languages
  • Chapter 9. Applications
  • Chapter 10. Cooperating Computers
  • Chapter 11. Graphics
  • Chapter 12. Artificial Intelligence
  • Answers
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Index