: Encyclopaedia of Computer Science: A Theoretical and Practical Approach This Encyclopaedia is designed to meet the need of beginners aswell as advance learners, who wish to deal with Computers. Besidesits use as a text, this encyclopaedia would also provide managers,engineers a basic introduction to the Hardware and Software ofcomputer. The first two volumes are described in theoretical way.These begin with an overview of Computer Science and IT. and thendescribes various aspects of it by explaining computer, software,Multimedia and BASIC. These also introduces the reader to databasemanagement systems, Internet and its applications, Visual Basic& Vb languages, I.T. in Business etc., by giving every minutedetails of each aspect. Where as the last two volumes are onpractical aspect. The current trend of assessing the skills of the students ischanging from essay type questions to objective type problemsolving, analytical and practical questions which try to assess theconceptual, analytical and practical skills of the students. Thelast two volumes cover the very wide ranging field of computerscience in practical aspect and provide a grassroot levelfoundation towards the preparation for many competitiveexaminations. These volumes contains about 5000 questions onvarious field of computer science. This encyclopaedia is an idealtool for students taking up computer science or relatedexaminations and act as self assessment guide to practice andReview the gap areas in their learning process. About the Author: S Venugopal, Swarup K Das Swarup K. Das is an alumnus of Burdwan University, West Bengal.He has worked with number of information Technology ventures, bothnational and international. Along with the development of newapplications, he loves to teach Java and its scriptingcapabilities. Presently, he is involved in developing a couple ofInternet related applications using the language. S. Venugopal holds a master's degree in Electronic Engineeringfrom I.
