Provides the highly successful concise and student-friendly writing style that is a trademark for the Dale/Weems textbook series in computer science.

Presents advanced topics at an introductory level with accessible writing and strong pedagogy.

A complete package of  student and instructor ancillaries that  include a student companion website, comprehensive lab manual in print and CD-ROM, test items, PowerPoint presentations for each chapter, and source code for all of the complete programs in the text.

A new feature, Software Maintenance Case Studies, is designed to teach students strategies for reading, debugging, and maintaining existing code.