librarianna81's review against another edition

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2.0

Largely boring and rudimentary, but I did learn a few interesting things here and there. (It was actually very interestingly-written for an introductory book; I'd like to pointedly applaud that.) It would be useful as a reference book for computer purchases and the like, and I suppose it was a good introductory book for those with no knowledge of computers or technology, but...this was more basic than my initial Computer Science course in college. Therefore it was something of a struggle to get through, but I wanted to, so I forced myself to read it in its entirety.
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