学好专业英语对计算机专业学生来说非常重要。本书是针对计算机专业学生编写的。全书每一章由正文、难句解释、关键词、练习和课外阅读等部分组成，阐述计算机类图书的翻译难句解释、关键词翻译、翻译专业计算机英语术语等。

本书共分为20章，每章由正文、难句解释、关键词、练习和课外阅读等部分组成，此外，每章还提供了参考译文。

本书由一线教师编写，其了解学生的知识水平、接受能力和需求点，而且翻译过大量计算机图书，有丰富的翻译经验，翻译技巧的系统介绍是本书的一大特色。

本书可作为高等院校“计算机英语”课程的教材或教学参考书，也可供有一定英语基础的广大计算机用户学习计算机英语时使用。

CHAPTER 1 BASIC CONCEPT

 1.1 Storage

1.1.1 Hard Disks

1.1.2 Floppy Disks

1.1.3 How Hard and Floppy Disks Work

1.1.4 Compact Disks

1.1.5 Uses of Floppy Disks

1.1.6 Uses of Compact Disks

 1.2 Outer Hardware

1.2.1 The Basics

1.2.2 Input Devices

1.2.3 Output Devices

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 Flash Memory

CHAPTER 2 HOW HARD DISKS WORK

 2.1 Hard Disk Basics

 2.2 Cassette Tape vs. Hard Disk

 2.3 Capacity and Performance

 2.4 Inside: Electronics Board

 2.5 Inside: Beneath the Board

 2.6 Inside: Platters and Heads

 2.7 Storing the Data

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 How Tape Recorders Work

CHAPTER 3 HOW COMPUTER MONITORS WORK

 3.1 The Basics

 3.2 Display Technology Background

 3.3 Display Technology: VGA

 3.4 Display Technology: DVI

 3.5 Viewable Area

 3.6 Maximum Resolution and Dot Pitch

 3.7 Refresh Rate

 3.8 Color Depth

 3.9 Power Consumption

 3.10 Monitor Trends: Flat Panels

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 Liquid crystal display

CHAPTER4 COMPUTER MICE

 4.1 Evolution

 4.2 The Optical Mouse

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 Floppy Disk Drives

CHAPTER 5 HOW BITS AND BYTES WORK

 5.1 Decimal Numbers

 5.2 Bits

 5.3 Bytes

 5.4 Bytes: ASCH

 5.5 Slandard ASCII Character Set

 5.6 Lots of Bytes

 5.7 Binary Math

 5.8 Qaick Recap

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additio aal Reading

 How Boolean Logic Works

CHAPTER 6 MICROPROCESSORS

 6.1 Microprocessor History

 6.2 Microprocessor Progression

 6.3 Inside a Microprocessor

 6.4 Microprocessor Instructions

 6.5 Decoding Microprocessor Instructions

 6.6 Microprocessor Performance

 6.7 Microprocessor Trends

 6.8 64-bit Processors

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 E-Commerce

CHAPTER 7 APPLICATION SOFTWARE

 7.1 What is Software

 7.2 Programming Languages

7.2.1 Assemblers

7.2.2 Compilers and interpreters

7.2.3 Nonprocedural Languages

 7.3 Libraries

 7.4 The Program Development Process

7.4.1 Problem Definition

7.4.2 Planning

7.4.3 Writing the Program

7.4.4 Debug and Documentation

7.4.5 Maintenance

 7.5 Writing your Own Programs

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 Computer software

CHAPTER 8 COMPILER

 8.1 Introduction to Compiler

 8.2 Introduction and history

 8.3 Types of compilers

 8.4 Compiled vs interpreted languages

 8.5 Compiler design

 8.6 Compiler front end

 8.7 Compiler back end

 8.8 Notes

 8.9 References

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Relared Topics

 Additional Reading

 Assembly language

CHAPTER 9 HOW JAVA WORKS

 9.1 A Little Terminology

 9.2 Downloading the Java Compiler

 9.3 Your First Program

 9.4 Understanding What Just Happened

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 How Perl Works

CHAPTER 10 POSITIONING VISUAL C++ IN THE DESKTOP DATABASE MARKET

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 C++

CHAPTER 11 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

 11.1 Overview

 11.2 Strong AI and weak AI

11.2.1 Strong artificial intelligence

11.2.2 Weak artificial intelligence

11.2.3 Philosophical criticism and support of strong AI

 11.3 History Development of AI theory

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 Alan Turing

CHAPTER 12 NEURAL NETWORK

 12.1 Structure

12.1.1 Models

12.1.2 Calculations

 12.2 Advantages

 12.3 Applications

12.3.1 Usefulness

12.3.2 Real life applications

 12.4 Types of neural networks

12.4.1 Single-layer perceptron

12.4.2 Multi-layer perceptron

12.4.3 Recurrent network

12.4.4 Hopfield network

12.4.5 Boltzwann machine

12.4.6 Committee of machines

12.4.7 Instantaneously trained networks

12.4.8 Spiking neural networks

 12.5 Relation to optimization techniques

 Notes

 Related Topics

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Additional Reading

 Genetic Algorithm

 CHAPTER 13 HOW DSL WORK

 13.1 Telephone Lines

 13.2 Asymmetrical DSL

 13.3 Distance Limitations

 13.4 Splitting the Signal: CAP

 13.5 Splitting the Signal: DMT

 13.6 DSL Equipment

 13.7 DSL Equipment: Transceiver

 13.8 DSL Equipment: DSLAM

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 ReEted Topics

 Additional Reading

 How Telephones Work

CHAPTER 14 INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE

 14.1 A Network Example

 14.2 Bridging The Divide

 14.3 Backbones

 14.4 Intemet Protocol: IP Addresses & Domain Name System

 14.5 Uniform Resource Locators

 14.6 Clients,Servers and Ports

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 ReLated Topics

 Additional Reading

 Modem

 DNS

 Uniform Resource Locator

 Client-server

CHAPTFR 15 HOW INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES WORK

 15.1 Looking at the Web

15.1.1 An Itsy-Bitsy Beginning

15.1.2 Meta Tags

 15.2 Building the Index

 15.3 Building a Search

 15.4 Future Search

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 AdcLitional Reading

 Internet Explorer

CHAPTER 16 ENCRYPTION

 16.1 In the Key of

16.1.1 Symmetric Key

16.1.2 Public Key

 16.2 Hash This

 16.3 Are You Authentic

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 Identity Theft

CHAPTER 17 TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE DCE

 17.1 Common threads

 17.2 Remote calls

 17.3 Directory services

 17.4 Distributed Security Service

 17.5 Distributed File System

 17.6 Distributed time service

 17.7 Extending andusing the DCE

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 How to Kerberize your site

CHAPTER 18 HOW MP3 FILES WORK

 18.1 introduction to MP3 files

 18.2 The MP3 Format

 18.3 Using the MP3 Format

 18.4 Downloading and Listening

 18.5 Creating Your Own

 18.6 Distributing Original Music

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 Sound Cards

 USB Ports

CHAPTER 19 SHOCKWAVE 3-D TECHNOLOGY

 19.1 Uses of Shockwave Technology

 19.2 Making 3-D Content Accessible

 19.3 Developing New 3-D Content

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 Computer Viruses

CHAPTER 20 HOW PLAYSTATION 2 WORKS

 20.1 History

 20.2 Console

 20.3 Controller

 20A Games

 Notes

 Keywords

 Exercise

 Related Topics

 Additional Reading

 How Video Game Systems Work