Subrata Dasgupta

This is one of the best books in the Very Short Introduction series that I have read. The author's style is generally clear and informal, but appropriately formal when necessary. This book makes me want to read others of his writings. I found a lot of very stimulating ideas when reading this volume. Great stuff!

A Great introduction to fields within Computer Science. In the Epilogue, the author asks, is Computer Science, an Universal Science? I would say, yes. I'd say, you can pretty much combine computational methods to any field of science.

Computer Science is complex, and solid field. The Chapter on Computer Architecture was difficult to understand, I am puzzled on the abstractions and levels within Architecture.

Overall, a great book for an introduction.

A Great introduction to fields within Computer Science. In the Epilogue, the author asks, is Computer Science, an Universal Science? I would say, yes. I'd say, you can pretty much combine computational methods to any field of science.

Computer Science is complex, and solid field. The Chapter on Computer Architecture was difficult to understand, I am puzzled on the abstractions and levels within Architecture.

Overall, a great book for an introduction.

These are the first sentences of the book, here in uncorrected proof form. `Thursday 24 February 2000. Sir Stanley Matthews is dead'. Here is a sentence from page 152. `Oddly enough, I read Wisden mostly over the winter months'.