Preface

    The best way for students to learn about technology is to use it. Understanding Computers: Today and Tomorrow, 2002 Edition, provides a truly interactive approach to learning about computers with a text that is fully integrated with a completely updated, multimedia-enhanced Web site. This nontechnical, introductory text explains in straightforward terms the importance of learning about computer, types of computer systems and their components, principles by which computer systems work, practical applicatiions of computes and related technologies, and ways in which the world is being changed by computers. The goal of this text is to provide the reader with a solid knowledge of computer basics and with a framework for using this knowledge effectively in workplace.