COMPUTERS-OPERATING SYSTEMS

Updated to cover the upcoming version of Windows, this package provides a wealth of tips and techniques for maximizing Windows 3's powers and performance. Focuses on intermediate-level topics, such as customizing Windows 3, sharing data with Clipboard and DDE, memory management, and more. 100 line drawings.

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This book and companion disk are designed for accomplished programmers who understand the Windows environment and want to optimize their files. The text will especially benefit tool developers, multimedia developers, and graphic tool developers.

The big bang: starting up and shutting down windows. Windows memory management. Starting a process: modules and tasks. The windowing system. The graphics device driver interface (GDI). The windows scheduler. The windows messaging system. Dynamic linking.

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Encompassing a broad range of forms and sources of data, this textbook introduces data systems through a progressive presentation. Introduction to Data Systems covers data acquisition starting with local files, then progresses to data acquired from relational databases, from REST APIs and through web scraping. It teaches data forms/formats from tidy data to relationally defined sets of tables to hierarchical structure like XML and JSON using data models to convey the structure, operations, and constraints of each data form. The starting point of the book is a foundation in Python programming found in introductory computer science classes or short courses on the language, and so does not require prerequisites of data structures, algorithms, or other courses. This makes the material accessible to students early in their educational career and equips them with understanding and skills that can be applied in computer science, data science/data analytics, and information technology programs as well as for internships and research experiences. This book is accessible to a wide variety of students. By drawing together content normally spread across upper level computer science courses, it offers a single source providing the essentials for data science practitioners. In our increasingly data-centric world, students from all domains will benefit from the “data-aptitude” built by the material in this book.

Managing memory is a critical issue for all PC users. This is the first book to cover this subject for Windows 3.1 users. The book explains the differences between the various kinds of memory Windows uses, translates the esoteric acronyms that abound in the system manuals, evaluates memory-management software utilities, and shows how to configure the desktop to avoid wasting RAM.

Here's a new edition of our quick and painless introduction to Windows. Perfect for beginners, these concise tutorials cover all the essentials: the "point and shoot" interface, File Manager, running applications, transferring information between windows and more.