A guidebook for the student who wants to use a computer in a science project, indicating the ways computer knowledge can be used in the performance of an investigation or project or in the analysis of the results.

"This edition contains over 100 completely new articles, ranging from artificial life to computer ethics, data mining to Java, mobile computing to quantum computing and software safety to the World Wide Web. In addition the 623 articles have been rigorously scrutinized and subjected to update, deletion or merging with new material." "Each article elaborates its subject, allowing readers to benefit from a substantive discussion that they can readily...