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Chapter 2: Basic Data Types

Chapter 2: Basic Data Types

pp. 5-78

Authors

David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College, Minnesota
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Summary

Imagine converting a color photograph to grayscale (as in Figure 2.1).Implementing this conversion requires interacting with a slew offoundational data types (the basic “kinds of things”) thatshow up throughout CS. A pixel is a sequence of three colorvalues, red, green, and blue. (And an image is a two-dimensional sequence ofpixels.)

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