Reviewing the Early Days of Computing [Book Review]
Author :
Shallit, Jeffrey
Author_Institution :
University of Waterloo
Volume :
16
Issue :
6
fYear :
2014
fDate :
Nov.-Dec. 2014
Firstpage :
8
Lastpage :
9
Abstract :
Here, Jeffrey Shallit reviews the book It Began with Babbage: The Genesis of Computer Science by Subrata Dasgupta, assessing its contents, organization, and the audience for which it´s suitable.
Keywords :
Book reviews; Computer lanugages; Computers; History; Charles Babbage; computational science; computer science; computing history; scientific computing;
