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A button on a Windows screen that does nothing is not too impressive. However, it takes about a hundred lines of C code to generate it, and many times that number of machine instructions. Still, BASIC is supposed to be an easy language, and Visual Basic even easier. So, why does it take until chapter seven before we get to create said futile button? Chapter eleven before we can accept input? Chapter eighteen (over halfway through the book) before we get anything like a usable program, primitive though it may be? This book can teach you to use Visual Basic in a lock-step, paint-by-numbers style. If you are adventurous, intelligent, and perseverent then (maybe) you can turn this entre into programming concepts and skills. copyrigh... Rest of this review on the detail page
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This is an advertising pamphlet for IBM technology, and for a development tool of the author's. Shafe defines client/server as anyone else would define a local area network. That is unimportant, since what he *really* wants to talk about is "high-end" client/server--which anyone else would define as client/server; distributed access to, and processing of, information. Chapter one is the big sell, with "rapid development of responsive applications" becoming a mantra. Chapter two proves what we began to suspect in chapter one--Shafe's model of client/server is strictly based on terminal access to a mainframe. IBM's technology, is, rather arbitrarily, "proved" to be superior to everything else, in chapters three (operating systems), f... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Blends basic computer science concepts and C language programming. The study of the language is presented as it applies to many different areas of computer science. Social perspectives, which highlight major events in the history of computer science, are included. The topics covered include everything from algorithms and artificial intelligence to human computer interfacing and operating systems. Each chapter begins with an essay posing a problem to be solved and ends with lab exercises for practicing what has been learned.
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This is a fun book about software portability. No, no! Send away those men in the white coats, and put down that butterfly net. Tracz has obviously had a lot of fun writing and speaking about the topic over the years, and he has collected a lot of that here. Some of the humour is just that (a rather sexist chapter on the history of programming languages, for example), but the similarities between "Not Invented Here" (NIH) and National Institute of Health", and between "Initial Program Load" (IPL) and "Intellectual Property Law", are used to make important points. Tracz is not unaware that software reuse most often means a radical shift in thinking and planning, right from the earliest stages of software development. Gently, he mak... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Experienced and advanced programmers can get to the heart of Java quickly and easily -- from the fundamentals to advanced tips and tricks of the experts -- with this book. Core Java provides comprehensive coverage of all Java features and syntax as well as Visual Basic and C/C++ tips that compare and contrast features of Java to those languages. This book is perfect for Visual Basic programmers who want to learn Java to broaden their marketability, C/C++ programmers who want to add it to their skill set because of the family resemblance between Java and C++, and COBOL programmers who want to "retool" by learning Java. The CD-ROM includes all source code and applets discussed in the book and the Java Developer's Kit.
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