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Computers *have* taken over the world: it's just that most of them are invisible. Cars, stereos and pop machines are now "run" by imbedded controllers. These are complete computer systems--with CPU, memory, input/output, and even some program space--on a single chip. This book describes the family of microcontrollers based on the Intel 8051. It includes an overview of the major chips in that group, as well as assembly language commands. (A reference table would have been helpful.) Three chapters cover general assembly language programming, and software and hardware interfacing experiments. The book contains a disk with the source code for the examples in the book, a cross assembler, and a chip simulator that runs under MS-DOS. ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Pattern Languages of Program Design is the first of three volumes of groundbreaking research on patterns, ranging from smaller-scale design patterns to larger patterns useful for software architecture and process engineering. Early chapters look at frameworks and components for engineering solutions to particular types of problems at a higher level, such as looking at patterns as "tools and materials" that can be used to solve problems effectively. The guide also discusses how to use patterns with interpreters and client-server systems. Distributed processing is a difficult and exciting area of computing, and patterns presented in Pattern Languages of Program Design can help solve some of the problems of scalability, concurrency,... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Use of this book definitely requires a programming background. That's what is stated, and that's the way it is. Broquard says that the material is intended for DOS programmers, but I would also suggest that experience with Windows, C library packages, and objects is pretty much essential. The book describes the functions of Borland's OWL (Object Windows Library). It contains tips on porting code from Windows 3.1. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997
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Intended as a textbook for a course on the idea of, and behind, high-level programming languages, this work first looks at the role of such languages, and the means of describing them. The author then looks at the three major "paradigms" of programming: imperative, object-oriented, and functional. Logic and concurrent programming are given some space, followed by semantic methods, lambda calculus and a brief overview of some current languages. The style of the book is highly academic. This is not necessarily a failing in a textbook, but it is coupled with singularly awkward explanations. Object- orientation seems to be no more than a particularly modular form of a procedural language while functional programming appears only to be e... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Object-oriented programming is presented as having numerous advantages over the more common (and more widely taught) linear model. Object programming, however, does require new concepts--without them, it is perfectly possible to write linear programs in an object language. This book tries to present such concepts in two ways. Part two of the work gives overview descriptions of the ideas and the activities of programming. Part one, however, basically demonstrates the use of the C++ language in producing a scheduling program with object-oriented methodology. The stated purpose, to provide current software professionals with the fundamentals of the new technology, may not be completely accomplished. The conceptual descriptions, while ne... Rest of this review on the detail page
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