Provides current and thorough introduction to computers by integrating usage of the World Wide Web with the printed text. This text offers a complete solution to successfully teach students basic computer concepts with new exercises, case studies, and online tools on the Companion Web site. For the past three decades, the Shelly Cashman Series« has effectively introduced computers to millions of students-consistently providing the highest quality, most up-to-date, and innovative materials in computer education.

Provides a current and thorough introduction to computers by integrating usage of the World Wide Web with the printed text.

Gary Shelly, together with co-author Tom Cashman, wrote and published his first computer education textbook in 1969. Since then, more than twenty million copies of Shelly Cashman textbooks have been sold. In recent years, Gary, Tom, and a talented group of contributing authors have produced leading textbooks on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software.Thomas J. Cashman received his education at California State University, Los Angeles. In 1960, he established one of the first business data processing programs in the United States at Long Beach City College in California, where he taught and served as department head from 1960 to 1966. In 1969, he began collaborating with Gary Shelly. Since that time, Cashman, Shelly, and a talented group of contributing authors have produced more than 186 leading textbooks on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software. He has also taught summer institutes for teachers at the University of Central Oklahoma, Memphis State University, and Purdue University.Misty E. Vermaat has more than 20 years of experience in the field of Computer Information Systems. During the past 15 years, she has co-authored 19 textbooks with Gary Shelly and Tom Cashman, including many versions of Discovering Computers and Microsoft Word Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques. She is a certified Microsoft Word Expert. Misty also was a tenured associate professor in the Information Systems and Computer Programming department at Purdue University Calumet and has worked as a consultant for a variety of businesses.

1. Introduction to Computers. Special Feature: Timeline 2007. 2. The Internet and World Wide Web. Special Feature: Making Use of the Web. 3. Application Software. 4. The Components of the System Unit. 5. Input. Special Feature: Personal Mobile Devices. 6. Output. Special Feature: Digital Imaging and Video Technology. 7. Storage. 8. Operating Systems and Utility Programs. Special Feature: Buyer's Guide 2007. Appendices: A: Coding Schemes and Number Systems. B: Quiz Yourself Answers. C: Computer Acronyms.