The CD-ROM accompanying the book contains a virtual computer/calculator called the DIY Calculator. The book’s step-by-step interactive laboratories guide you in the creation of a simple calculator program to run on your DIY Calculator.

How Computers Do Math can be enjoyed by nontechnical individuals; students of computer science, electronics engineering, and mathematics; and even practicing engineers (to name but a few). All of the illustrations and interactive laboratories featured in the book are provided on the CD-ROM for use by high school, college, and university educators as lecture notes and handouts.