Essence of Program Design - Softcover

Bell, Doug; Morrey, Ian; Pugh, John R.

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9780133678062: Essence of Program Design

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0133678067 ISBN 13: 9780133678062

Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr, 1997

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Compares all the leading methods for creating a program's structure, and helps programmers understand when each is most appropriate.Program design is about the way programmers create structures for their programs. The book covers several of the most commonly-used approaches, showing when each approach is valid, and which have general utility. It helps programmers select the methods that are best for them and their applications. It covers essential program design topics including functional decomposition, data structure design, dataflow design, object-oriented design, design notations, and design guidelines.Any programmer or programming student.

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The Essence of Programming in C++ contains a simple introduction to looping constructs, functions, and arrays, but neglects to discuss the language features that make C++ an object-oriented system. If C++ is your first programming language, then this book might serve as a starting point, but you will have to turn to another manual to learn about classes, inheritance, and hierarchies. (The author states that object-oriented programming is beyond the scope of the manual.) Because of this omission, The Essence of Programming in C++ is indistinguishable from a C programming language manual and is not recommended for someone who already knows C.

About the Author:

Douglas Bell is a Lecturer in Computer Science at Sheffield Hallam University.

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