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I thought this book was good and helpful; it has a lot of information-- everything you need to know about computer history. The only problem is that it has too much information, too many names and too many different machines with many different names, which I had a hard time to understand. It would be helpful if it has a glossary on the back of this book.

I would recommend this book to anybody who interests in computer. Whether you are a computer professional or a beginner, this book will help you understand deeper. It will take you into the past when there were no computers yet, human's hands were their only machines, to to the present when humans no longer use their hands to do dirty work for them. Today people let machines do the work. They create the programs, tell the computers what to do, and they do as they are commaned. I enjoyed reading the first and second part the most. Mostly, I like the first part, because it covers a lot on table-making, which I found very interesting; I had never heard it before. In part two, I think I enjoyed reading the part about the computer invention the most. The most confusing part in in part three, session seven. I hardly remember anything about the things I have read.

This book contains three parts: Before the Computer(When Computers Were People, The Mechanical Office, and Babbage's Dream Comes True), Creating the Computer(Inventing the Computer, The Computer Becomes a Business Machine, and The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IBM), and Getting Personal(The Shaping of the Personal Computer, The Shift to Software, and From the World Brain to the World Wide Web).The book covers a lot of stuff, from the past to the future of computer. That's why I think this book is good for computer science students. It is not easy to read, but I still think it will be a good book for beginners computer science students.