Welcome to my introductory CS/SE text book project.

Draft 2.1 is available. This is the version that was made available to our CS1-3 students who were studying Eiffel.

Highlights of this draft
• table of contents below is very accurate (see below)
• list of excluded items has shrunk (see below)
• figures almost all OK (some are still home-drawn)

If you would like to see the actual text of the book, please email me. I will make it accessible to you.

Please respect my copyright, and do not print copies for distribution. Instead, feel free to circulate the URL for this page, and I will endeavor not to change it!

• The preface for the book, explaining my goals
• Table Of Contents (from late June 1998)
• A Brief History of Computing -- something of a motivating introductory chapter
• Some later topics that may not make it into this book

Please send me mail with any comments. They would be most appreciated!