Provides an overview of file design and manipulation and discusses Ada records and files, blocking and buffering, secondary storage devices, search trees, and various types of file organization
About Charles G. Petersen
Charles Petersen holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and is a registered professional engineer. He worked for 10 years in industry before returning to graduate school to complete a master's degree in Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in Higher Education and has been teaching computer science at the university level since 1972. He is the author of three other computer science textbooks and several articles dealing with computer science topics and curriculum issues.