How to Use This Book

Book Outline

Conventions

The following naming and style conventions are used throughout the book.

• Programming code, functions: code
• Variables: var
• Formulas and mathematical expressions: \(f(x)=\{x:x\in s\}\)
• Packages or libraries: package
• Boolean values: \(TRUE\) and \(FALSE\)

Audience

The book is intended to support a first undergraduate course in information science.

Prerequisites

Online Resources

The data files can be downloaded from http://www.arsdoceo/pcis/files. An online version of the book can be found at http://bookdown.org/mjs01776/is2000. Support material for a course on Computational Information Science is available at http://is2000.weebly.com.

0.1 Errata

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