Computer science is the key to understanding our increasingly digitized world! In this book, you will not only learn how navigation systems determine the cheapest route, how so many images fit onto a small memory card, or what things a computer simply cannot calculate. With paper and pencil and the craft templates, you can literally grasp the answers to these and many other questions yourself. A computer is not even necessary for this! In fact, the book even includes several cardboard computers that help you better understand how the "real" devices are designed and how they function. As a new feature, there are supplementary, interactive websites that you can access freely and without advertisements from the internet to experiment with.

The book is for everyone who has always wanted to look behind the scenes of computer science: from students to teachers, from undergraduates to professors, from interested laypeople to IT experts who know exactly how to do certain things but may not understand why they work that way or how to explain the core of their daily work to their families.

The 5th edition includes additional chapters with new material as well as the expansion and revision of existing chapters. The proven hands-on concept with experiments and cut-out craft sheets is the consistent thread throughout. Feedback on previous editions: “Anyone considering studying computer science gets a taste of what to expect - everyone else can simply read the book for pleasure.” “So embark on the adventure of computer science! I’m sure you will enjoy it.” “Even if it sounds incredible: Adventure Computer Science is a book about important principles of the modern information-processing everyday world that you won't be able to put down once you start reading.”.