Computer Science: An Overview

This is a good book as per its title - an overview of computer science - and a good fit for its intended audience: students venturing into computer science.

The book touches on many computer science topics but does not go in-depth - just enough to give a primer for subsequent courses. The book isn't a light read for non-computer science students though, it does go into technicalities that kind of require the readers to at least have an idea of what it is - so this book is definitely really only good for computer science students (not as the preface would otherwise suggest).