An Introduction to Digital Multimedia

This is the textbook for my multimedia class. As far as textbooks go it's easy to read and well laid out.

Used this book in my com 207 class. Some of the definitions are oddly phrased.

Covers a very wide variety of digital multimedia.

Good book.

An average text book that covers a broad swath of multimedia in web design / applications, but in a general and non specific manner.

It's okay. Drab for a multimedia book, in my opinion. Gets a bit wordy.

Good

From the very beginning of computers as we know them advanced thinkers had a vision that computers could do more than just process data and write things like pay checks - although pay checks are nice to get. In the last twenty years, however, entirely new concepts of graphical color images, sound, video and devices like phones, tablets and more have come into being. With them have come digital cameras and video recorders, color ink jet printers have replaced whining dot matrix printers, and more. These have been combined with visions of what can be or needs to be done. All of this has led to the concept we now call MULTIMEDIA.Multimedia has developed into a subset of computing (yes, other computers still print pay checks), and this book gives an excellent introduction to what is involved. It talks about the hardware, the software and the concepts of what multimedia involves. It is intended for the casual interested reader and for use as a textbook for a variety of computer science classes. It provides a good base from which the interested reader moves to a text on the software systems to be used to produce the multimedia project.