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Active Learning Approach to Operating System Concepts

30 years of teaching experience informs key concepts where…

Tracing Algorithms

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Tips for Teaching your Web Programming Course

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Programming in Python 3

Teach Python with this hands-on, interactive zyBook, the #1 textbook for university intro courses, updated with Python for data science.

Python for Everyone

The interactive zyBoooks version of this classic introduction to computer programming.

Programming in C

Contains more than 550 participation activities including questions, animations, tools and over 110 auto-graded programming challenge activities using built-in programming environment. Configurable sections support early/late introduction to functions.

Programming in C++

Contains more than 700 participation activities including questions, animations, tools and over 150 auto-graded programming challenge activities using built-in programming environment. Includes focus on solid understanding of memory usage and pointers, configurable sections to support early/late introduction to functions and objects, and additional material like arrays and structs. Web-based programming practice environment compiles and executes code in the zyBook.

Big C++: Late Objects

The interactive zyBooks version of this classic introduction to computer programming.

Programming in Java

Contains more than 600 participation activities with questions, animations, tools and over 120 auto-graded programming challenge activities that use the built-in zyBooks programming environment. Configurable sections support early and late introduction to methods and objects while additional material includes command-line arguments and engineering examples.

Java Early Objects

Contains more than 600 participation activities with questions, animations, tools and over 120 auto-graded programming challenge activities that use the built-in zyBooks programming environment. Configurable sections support early and late introduction to methods and objects while additional material includes command-line arguments and engineering examples.

Big Java: Late Objects

The interactive zyBooks version of this classic introduction to computer programming.

C# Fundamentals

Troubleshooting Basics

Short intro (2 chapters) to a systematic troubleshooting process containing numerous real-world troubleshooting examples. Teaches basic debugging (using a simple programming language) with debugging examples to illustrate common calculation, logic, loop, and function errors.

Introduction to MATLAB®

Introduction to MATLAB® zyBook provides an interactive learning experience of programming foundations and MATLAB®. Request eval access.

MATLAB: An Introduction to Applications (6e)

Circuits (3rd ed) published by the National Technology & Science Press, brought to life with numerous integrated activities including dozens of animations of concepts like solving an RLC circuit and hundreds of interactive learning questions. Contains embedded auto-generated and graded challenges like reading resistor values. Rewards homework points for student activity completion.