Computer Science Principles: The Foundational Concepts of Computer Science

by Kevin Hare, Pindar Van Arman (Foreword)

--- --- Computer science is the world's fastest growing field of study, and this growth is showing no signs of slowing down. As a new field, computer science can seem intimidating, but it should not be scary to learn or difficult to understand. If you have ever turned on a phone or surfed the Internet then you have used a computer and should have a basic understanding of what happens when you click the mouse or touch the screen—and how fast it happens! Computer Science Principles introduces the creative side of computing. Once you've made your way through this book, you'll be editing photos, designing websites, coding JavaScript, and getting organized with spreadsheets—and along the way you'll learn the foundational concepts of computer science. How do computers convert information into ones and zeros and send it thousands of miles in a blink of the eye? What is an IP address? What do TCP/IP, DNS, HTML, and CSS stand for? How can a hard drive store large movies and thousands of songs? How can secrets be sent in plain sight? These questions—and more—are answered in Computer Science Principles.

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Units

276 pages, Paperback

Published March 18, 2022

About the author

Kevin Hare is the founder of CS++ (csplusplus.com), a computer science curriculum platform used in schools in four states, and of Yellow Dart Publishing, the education company behind it. He has taught high school computer science for more than 20 years, including AP Computer Science A, AP Computer Science Principles, Web Design, and Mobile App Development, and still teaches AP Computer Science in San Diego. He spent much of his career at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, DC, and co-founded the technology company BoxJump. He has served as a College Board AP consultant (mentoring) for AP Computer Science Principles. Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in computer science, a master's degree in secondary education, and a master's degree in computer science from Georgia Tech, where he was a research assistant in the Design and Intelligence Lab. He is pursuing an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis in computer science, at the University of Florida, and is a Certified Apple Learning Coach. His textbook, Computer Science Principles: The Foundational Concepts of Computer Science (Yellow Dart Publishing), is on the College Board's AP Computer Science Principles Example Textbook List.