Focusing on ASL for the IBM PC, the most popular PC in business and academia, this book includes numerous, simple-to-follow examples and code fragments. Balanced exercise sets, including drill exercises and programming objects, provide students with exercises at an appropriate range of difficulty for a variety of skill levels.

Decker and Hirshfield's Working Classes applies the C++ programming language to the study of data structures and abstract data types. The authors organize their discussion of abstract data types according to their structural restrictions beginning with highly structured lists, stacks, and queues, and progressing through trees and directed graphs to unstructured sets. Chapter 10 examines the problem of regenerating text from a large sample, using a real computer/compiler system to demonstrate how time and space constraints arise from the choice of data structure. The book teaches by example (with more than 350 exercises provided), and most chapters conclude with an optional Explorations section that covers topics of special interest.

This introduction to the organization and programming of the 8086 family of microprocessors used in IBM microcomputers and compatibles is comprehensive and thorough. Includes coverage of I/O control, video/graphics control, text display, and OS/2. Strong pedagogy with numerous sample programs illustrates practical examples of structured programming.

Thoroughly updated for currency, this book offers a clear presentation of data communications and network fundamentals. Featuring a wide array of applications, the book fully explains concepts and supports them with case studies or descriptions of specific software and other products. Students learn the protocols of analog and digital signals, data compression, data integrity, data security, local area networks, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), and much more. The third edition includes important information on the latest developments of the Internet.

A time-saving guide for solving all kinds of programming problems, this book picks up where other programming codebooks leave off--assuming programmers know the basics, and providing help with more complex programming problems. Each subject in the book is treated in detail, with numerous code samples that can be interfaced with all high-level languages.

This book presents a complete lab-based introduction to computer programming based on the object-oriented paradigm and the C++ programming language.

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