Acknowledgments and Contributions

I would like to thank the following individuals for their assistance in helping me put together this book whether by providing proofreading help, input into the material, or other forms of advice and assistance: Cheri Klink, Scot Cunningham, Justin Smith, Jim Hughes, Wei Hao, Randi Cohen, Stan Wakefield, Renee Human, Jim Leone, Barry Lunt, and Laurie Schlags. I would also like to thank my students in CIT 130 who helped hammer out the content of this book, especially: Kimberly Campbell, Kaysi Cook, David Fitzer, Jason Guilkey, William Hemmerle, James Lloyd, Dustin Mack, Frank Mansfield, Wyatt Nolen, Mark Oliverio, Ronak Patel, Christine Pulsifer, Ishwar Ramnath, Jonathan Richardson, Nathaniel Ridner, Matthew Riley, Jennifer Ross, William Scanlon, Glenn Sparkes, and Adam Thompson. I would like to thank everyone who contributes to the Open Source Community, particularly those who have supported GIMP and Inkscape, two drawing tools that I used extensively to create or manipulate all of the figures in this text.

I would also like to thank many friends and colleagues for all of their support throughout the years, particularly Jim Mardis, Rick Karbowski, Stephanie Stewart, Julie Hartigan, Vicki Uti, Jim Giantomasi, Gary Newell, Russ Proctor, John Josephson, B. Chandrasekaran, Pearl Brazier, John Abraham, and Xiannong Meng.