Ada: An Introduction - Brossura

Ledgard, Henry

 
9780387908144: Ada: An Introduction

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If Charles Babbage is to be regarded as the father of modern day computer technology, then surely the Countess Augusta Ada Lovelace, after whom this new language is named, must be remembered as its midwife.

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Contenuti

The Landscape.- 1: Five Examples.- 1.1 Temperature Conversion.- 1.2 Counting Change.- 1.3 A Better Way to Count Change.- 1.4 Target Practice.- 1.5 Keeping Score.- Dominant Features.- 2: Describing Data.- 2.1 Types.- 2.2 Primitive Types.- 2.3 Array Types.- 3: Describing Computations.- 3.1 Expressions.- 3.2 Assignment Statements.- 3.3 Conditional Statements.- 3.4 Looping Statements.- 4: Subprograms.- 4.1 Subprograms.- 4.2 Calling Statements.- 4.3 Separation of Subprogram Bodies.- 4.4 Overloading of Subprograms.- 5: Packages.- 5.1 The Visible Information.- 5.2 Making Use of the Visible Information.- 5.3 Providing Operations Over Data.- 5.4 Private Information.- 5.5 Summary.- 6: General Program Structure.- 6.1 Elaboration of Declarations.- 6.2 Nesting and Visibility.- 6.3 Separate Compilation.- 6.4 Using Separate Compilation.- 6.5 Summary.- Specialized Features.- 7: Types Revisited.- 7.1 Record Types.- 7.2 Types with Dynamic Structure.- 7.3 Derived Types.- 7.4 Constraints on Types.- 8: Input and Output.- 8.1 Printing a Price List.- 8.2 Use of Specialized Subprograms.- 8.3 Predefined Packages for Input-Output.- 9: Parallel Processing.- 9.1 Textual Appearance of a Task.- 9.2 Organization of Multiple Tasks.- 9.3 Communications between Tasks.- 9.4 Choosing Among Alternative Entry Calls.- 9.5 Specifying Delays.- 9.6 Interrupting a Task.- 10: Exception Conditions.- 10.1 Introducing Exceptions.- 10.2 Raising and Handling an Exception.- 10.3 Propagation of an Exception.- 10.4 Exceptions Arising During Inter-task Communication.- 11: Utilizing the Implementation.- 11.1 Representing Data.- 11.2 Changing the Representation of Data.- 11.3 Giving Instructions to the Translator.- 11.4 Environment Inquiries.- Perspective.- 12: Summary.

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ISBN 10:  3540908145 ISBN 13:  9783540908142
Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heide..., 1983
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