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IT Specialist Resources: Discrete Structures

The resources in this guide are available through the library.

Discrete Structures of Applications

Discrete Structures of Applications covers many mathematical topics. These topics include: Algebra, Binary & Hexadecimal, Boolean Algebra, Set Theory, and Statistics. 

This page has links to some of the library resources available for these topics.

 

Please visit the Library's Math Resources guide for some additional math resources.

Algebra Resources


Books
Here is a couple of the books on Algebra available at the NSCC Library.


eBooks

The library has a subscription to the eBook platform Safari books. Safari has many Algebra related eBooks. 

You can access the entire Safari books catalog by going to this link. You will to sign in with your school email address.

Set Theory


Books

The NSCC Library has a couple of items that might help you with Set Theory.


eBooks

The library has a subscription to the eBook platform Safari Books. Safari has many eBooks covering the topic of Set Theory.

You can access the entire Safari Books catalog by going to this link. You might need to sign in with your school email address.

Statistics


eBooks

The library has a subscription to the eBook platform Safari Books. Safari has many eBooks covering the topic of Statistics.

You can access the entire Safari Books catalog by going to this link. You might need to sign in with your school email address.

Statistics, ch 4

McGraw-Hill's Top 50 Skills for a Top Score: ASVAB Reading and Math, skill 36

 

Binary & Hexadecimal


Books

There are a few books in the NSCC Library covering the conversion to binary and hexadecimal.


eBooks

There are a number of eBooks with information on Binary & Hexadecimal available through Safari Books. You will need to sign in with your school email address.

You can access the entire Safari books catalog by going to this link. You will to sign in with your school email address.

Boolean Algebra

Videos

Boolean Logic operations

Truth Tables


Books

The NSCC Library has a couple of books covering Boolean Algebra.


eBooks

The library has a subscription to the eBook platform Safari Books. Safari has many eBooks covering Boolean Algebra/Logic.

You can access the entire Safari Books catalog by going to this link. You will need to sign in with your school email address.

Engineering Mathematics


Fun Learning Resources

Robot Repair - web based game that help reinforce boolean concepts.

Visual Logic

Visual Logic is a neat little program that lets you turn your algorithms into executable flowcharts. This allows you to test you logic before writing a program in a programming language like VB or C#. The best part about the flowcharts you develop in Visual Logic is that you can give them to any programmer, and they can make your algorithm into a program in their language.

Here are a few resources available through the library.

Books

Video

This video walk you through creating the pseudocode and flowchart for 2 simple programs.

Tutorials

This page walks you through designing a flow chart for the game Hangman.

Here you will find some note on algorithms, flowcharts, and pseudocode.

Something fun

This is a fun video demonstrating sorting algorithms.

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