The Shelly Cashman Series®
Today’s Students. Today’s Technology. Today’s Shelly Cashman Series.
Over the past three decades the Shelly Cashman Series has introduced computers to millions of students. Whether it is basic computer concepts or advanced Microsoft Office applications, the Shelly Cashman Series has been there from the beginning to make learning both engaging and rewarding for students.
Discovering
Computers | Microsoft Office 2007 | Design
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About the Series
The Shelly Cashman Series cutting-edge textbooks and technology tools make it easier to teach and learn about computers.
Millions of users have followed Shelly and Cashman's successful project-based approach to learning, which features step-by-step instructions with corresponding full-color screen shots, making it nearly impossible for students to lose their way. Extensive exercises at the end of each chapter reinforce concepts, and the visually appealing layout and design ensure that students remain engaged.
The Shelly Cashman Series includes a wide range of titles, from computer concepts to applications, programming, systems analysis and design, networking, and the Internet. These books are available separately or bundled together.
With textbooks from the Shelly Cashman Series, your success in the classroom is guaranteed.
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author Gary Shelly.
Discovering
Computers, 2010 Living in a Digital World
Experience unparalleled learning with the Shelly Cashman Series’ Discovering Computers texts.
Learn more about Discovering Computers and view an animated walk through of
the Online Companion site on our Community page:
The Shelly Cashman Series’ Discovering
Computers texts provide students with a current and thorough introduction
to computers by integrating the use of technology with the printed text.
These texts offer an engaging solution to teach students the most important
computer concepts in today’s digital world with new exercises, case
studies, and online tools on the Online Companion. Updated for currency,
students will learn the latest trends in technology and computer concepts.
Features of the new editions:
- Gives students a complete introduction to the latest in computers and
technology including Web 2.0, green computing and Web applications.
- Brings
relevance to concepts with updated FAQ and Ethics & Issues boxes,
Companies on the Cutting Edge, Technology Trailblazers, and High-Tech Talk
articles.
- Engages students with New Computer Usage @ Work boxes that describe
how computers are utilized in several professional industries and new Innovative
Computing boxes that show examples of how particular technologies are used
in creative ways. *
- Introduces and familiarizes students with new and developing
technologies with New Living Digitally and Web 2.0 features which also
help to make the technology accessible for introductory students. *
- Challenges
students with New Exploring Computer Careers and Green Computing end-of-chapter
student assignments that allow students to apply the concepts learned in
the chapter and brand new CNET videos on the Online Companion that broaden
student experience learning about computer concepts.*
* Features included in both Discovering Computers 2010, Living in a Digital
World and Discovering Computers: Fundamentals, 2010 Edition
Bring
Learning to Life with the Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory, Premium
Video Edition from the Shelly Cashman Series®
Features
of our Premium Video Edition books:
- Engages students with 350 dynamic and exciting videos
that correlate to the Table of Contents and mirror the step-by-step pedagogy
found in the text.
- Allows students to apply the range of skills they have
learned for the entire application in a real-world framework with comprehensive
Capstone Projects for each application, as well as Integration Capstone Projects.
- Provides auto-graded assessment for select end-of-chapter content, where
students work live in the application on a real-world project with SAM Projects.
- Offers coverage of both Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems
providing flexibility in teaching.
Series History
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Gary Shelly
Gary Shelly, together with co-author Tom Cashman, wrote and published his first computer education textbook in 1969. Since then, more than twenty million copies of Shelly Cashman textbooks have been sold. In recent years, Gary, Tom, and a talented group of contributing authors have produced leading textbooks on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software. |
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Thomas J. Cashman
Thomas J. Cashman received his education at California State University, Los Angeles. In 1960, he established one of the first business data processing programs in the United States at Long Beach City College in California, where he taught and served as department head from 1960 to 1966.
In 1969, he began collaborating with Gary Shelly. Since that time, Cashman, Shelly, and a talented group of contributing authors have produced more than 186 leading textbooks on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software. He has also taught summer institutes for teachers at the University of Central Oklahoma, Memphis State University, and Purdue University. |
The Shelly Cashman Series
Thirty-five years ago, computer educator Tom Cashman collaborated with Gary Shelly, one of his programming students, on their first book: IBM System/360 Assembler Language, published by Anaheim Publishing Company. With the success of this book, they formed a writing partnership that has endured to this day.
Shelly and Cashman soon became the best-selling authors in computer and computer programming education. In 1980, they published the first ever full-color Introduction to Computers text. Not only did they sell 1.8 million copies of this edition, they changed the face of the Introductory computer course forever. Today, the Shelly Cashman Series books, published by Course Technology, are used by thousands of educators and millions of students, all around the world.
