REVISED! Chapter organization helps students easily navigate the text and understand major concepts.

• Brief JavaScript introduction helps ease students into learning a second programming language.
• Learning objectives at the start of each cover media learning objectives and computer science learning objectives to acquaint students with the importance of both sides of chapter concepts.
• REVISED! End-of-chapter questions have been added and enhanced to provide solid review for students.
• Four types of boxed Items throughout the text Include CS Key Ideas, Common Bugs, Debugging Tips, and "Making It Work" tips on how to study and be successful at computer science.

NEW! The text has been rewritten in various chapters to include the latest trends and information in Media Computation.

• NEW! Chapter on text as a medium and manipulating strings to make sentences, koans, and codes provides students with additional information on the topic.
• Computing for Communications connects computing with careers, showing students the role it can play in their futures.
• NEW! Examples for processing CSV (Comma-Separated Values), a common format for sharing data on the Internet, are created by using a string processing file, then using the CSV library in Python, and then accessing the data by URL.
• REVISED! Detection code has been rewritten as shorter and simpler to understand.
• REVISED! Addition of turtles such as dancing turtles and recursive patterns.
• UPDATED! Latest features in JES allow a reduced need to use full pathnames.
• Computer science terms and conditionals are introduced earlier and more thoroughly in the book to help students build a foundation of understanding for the remainder of the text.
• Variables and how they work are explained in detail.
• Web Examples help students relate the material to the Internet and the digital media world.

• • Cross-disciplinary issues between computer science and other professions show how the major concepts can apply to many real-life situations.
• Discussion on differences between image formats is included.
• • Manipulation of media Includes implementing Photoshop-like effects, reversing/splicing sounds, creating animations.
• HTML is introduced and covered, teaching writing programs that generate HTML.
• Emphasis on creativity provides open-ended programming for media creation like creating visual or audio collages that apply the material to relevant subject matter.

Use of Python provides an easy to learn and use programming language and more applicable to the world of Media Computation.

• REVISED! Bugs from the third edition have been fixed.

The Web as a Data Source teaches how to read from files and discusses how to write programs to directly read Web pages and distill information from there for use in other calculations, other Web pages, etc.

Real CS1 content meets the ACM/IEEE Computing Curriculum 2001 guidelines for a CS1 course, including coverage of procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming approaches, even though the book has been used most with non-CS majors.

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