Copyright -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- INTRODUCTION -- HOW TO USE THIS GLOSSARY -- PART A: HOW COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARE USED -- A1 GENERAL COMPUTING TERMS -- INFORMATION PROCESSING -- PARTS OF THE COMPUTER SYSTEM -- A2 USING YOUR COMPUTER -- SYSTEM SOFTWARE -- ORGANISING DATA -- THE SIZE OF THINGS -- OPERATION -- A3 WORD PROCESSING AND TEXT MANIPULATION -- SOFTWARE -- PROCESSES -- ELEMENTS OF PRINT -- LAYOUT -- STYLES -- A4 GRAPHICS, DESIGN AND DIGITAL IMAGING -- IMAGE DATA FORMATS -- GRAPHIC DESIGN APPLICATIONS -- DIGITAL STILL IMAGING -- DIGITAL VIDEO -- A5 SOUND -- CHARACTERISTICS OF SOUND -- SOUND PROCESSING -- DEVICES -- A6 USER INTERFACE AND DOCUMENTATION -- GRAPHICAL INTERFACES -- OTHER INTERFACE STYLES -- DOCUMENTATION -- A7 COMMERCIAL DATA PROCESSING (DP) -- A8 SPREADSHEETS -- A9 DATA HANDLING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL -- A10 MODELLING AND SIMULATION -- A11 INTERNET -- ACCESSING THE INTERNET -- ORGANISING THE INTERNET -- WORLD WIDE WEB -- ELECTRONIC MAIL -- OTHER INTERNET APPLICATIONS -- INTERNET PROBLEMS -- A12 NETWORKING -- A13 CONTROL AND MONITORING -- CONTROL -- VIRTUAL REALITY -- A14 ARTIFICIAL OR MACHINE INTELLIGENCE -- A15 COMPUTER PERSONNEL -- A16 COMPUTER SECURITY, ABUSE AND RELATED LAW -- DATA SECURITY -- VIRUSES AND MALICIOUS CODE -- COPYRIGHT -- A17 SPECIALISED COMPUTER APPLICATIONS -- PART B: WHAT COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARE MADE OF -- B1 TYPES OF COMPUTER -- B2 INPUT -- MANUAL INPUT -- AUTOMATED INPUT -- B3 MEMORY -- GENERAL CONCEPTS -- DISK -- MISCELLANEOUS FORMS OF MEMORY -- GENERAL -- B4 OUTPUT -- COLOUR -- QUALITY -- DISPLAY -- PRINTING -- B5 COMMUNICATIONS COMPONENTS -- PART C: HOW COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARE DEVELOPED -- C1 SYSTEMS DESIGN AND LIFE CYCLE -- CONCEPTS -- STAGES -- PROJECT MANAGEMENT -- GENERAL -- C2 DESCRIBING SYSTEMS -- C3 PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS -- OBJECT-ORIENTED TECHNIQUES -- TRADITIONAL PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES.

C4 PROGRAMMING (FLOW OF EXECUTION) -- C5 PROGRAMMING (SUBPROGRAMS) -- C6 PROGRAM SYNTAX -- C7 DESCRIBING PROGRAMS -- C8 TESTING AND RUNNING PROGRAMS -- C9 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES -- LEVELS OF LANGUAGE -- TYPES OF LANGUAGE -- MISCELLANEOUS SPECIALISED LANGUAGES -- C10 DATA REPRESENTATION -- CONCEPTS -- STRUCTURES -- ELEMENTS -- C11 NUMERIC DATA REPRESENTATION -- C12 MANAGING DATA FILES -- FILES -- OPERATIONS -- GENERAL -- PART D: HOW COMPUTERS WORK -- D1 SYSTEMS SOFTWARE -- CONCEPTS -- DEVELOPMENT -- OPERATIONS -- D2 MACHINE ARCHITECTURE -- THE PROCESSOR -- MEMORY -- GENERAL CONCEPTS -- INTERFACES -- PHYSICAL COMPONENTS -- D3 COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY -- TRANSMISSION -- PROTOCOLS -- D4 TRUTH TABLES AND LOGIC GATES -- BINARY LOGIC -- GATES -- PART E: REFERENCE -- E1 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- E2 UNITS -- E3 FILENAMES AND FILENAME EXTENSIONS -- E4 GEOGRAPHIC DOMAIN IDENTIFIERS -- E5 ASCII CHARACTER CODES -- INDEX -- Back Cover.