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This book is a ready-reference for prospective and practising Modula-2 programmers. providing a logical progression of concepts for those readers who are less familiar with the language. No previous programming knowledge is assumed although experience of programming in Pascal or C would be useful. ... Read more

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Die Schwierigkeit der Programmierung liegt darin, daß wir unsere Ideen in eine Form bringen müssen, die maschinell verarbeitet werden kann. Diese Umsetzung von Ideen in mechanische Form fällt oft schwer und kann den Anfänger entmutigen. Das Buch zeigt, wie durch richtige Strukturierung, durch die Ausbildung eines guten "Stils", auch komplexe Programme geschrieben und verstanden werden können. Dazu bedient es sich der Sprache Modula-3, die als Nachfolger von Pascal und Modula-2 auf den in diesen Sprachen bereits bewährten Konzepten aufbaut und sie erweitert. Der dadurch ermöglichte Programmierstil führt schrittweise über den Umgang mit komplexen Datentypen und Algorithmen hin zu modernen und anspruchsvollen Themen wie objektorientierte und parallele Programmierung. ... Read more

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Presents the entire Modula-2 language and illustrates its use in the context of modern software development. The book focuses on the use of abstract data types and information hiding in the software development process. It shows how the frame of a software system can be specified, at the design stage, using Modula-2 as a program design language. In fact, the ability to separate the specification of an abstraction from its implementation is one of the key features of Modula-2. ... Read more

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My first programming book
Wonderful book with well worked and worded examples.Only one complaint (the reason its 4 stars not 5)and that is the disk that came with the book does not work and i have never been able to find a replacment.

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Making Sense of Modula-2 assumes no previous knowledge of Modula-2. The authors provide a complete course in both the principles of good software design and the use of the language applied to real problems. Includes examples in design, implementation, documentation, testing and modification that enable readers to experience the whole of the software engineering spectrum. ... Read more

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Covering thoroughly the central subject of computer science--data structures and algorithms--this text offers a practical introduction to theory, implementation, and applications using the Abstract Data Type approach. For each of the major data types, it provides a definition in terms of objects and operations, an illustration of its use, and at least one method of implementation. Specific topics include parsing, simulation, expression simplification, BNF, and backtracking. Most implementations are analyzed informally through the Big-Oh notation, introduced in the first chapter. Each discussion is followed by larger applications and overviews of related issues. Special emphasis is placed on recursion, which is fully explained and used to clarify other concepts in the book. In addition, program readability is also stressed and reinforced. Throughout, the superiority of Modula-2 over earlier languages is fully exploited. Exercises comprise almost 150f the text. ... Read more

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This book introduces Modula-2 through an object-oriented programming approach which has been developed over the past five years on the BSc and MSc computer science courses at Hatfield. Chapter 1 introduces the main features of Modula-2 through an example program, whilst chapter 2 introduces the concepts required for object-oriented program design. All the essential high level features of the language are covered in some detail in chapters 3 to 8. Chapter 9 explores the main attributes of an object-oriented language and considers to what extent these features are represented in Modula-2. Chapters 10-12 develop object-oriented solution to simple example through the implementation of some of these features. The low level features of the language are discussed in chapter 13, and chapter 14 extends these features to discuss the implementation of basic operating system functions in Modula-2. This book is suitble for beginners in programming following an undergraduates in computer science and as self-study text for more experienced high-level language programmers who wish to learn Modula-2 in the context of an object-oriented approach.We recommend read and implement the example program in chapter 1 then read chapter 2 to obtain a flavour of object oriented design; however they should leave a full study of the example program in chapter 2 until they have become fully familiar with the material in chapters 3 to 8. The more experienced programmer may not need to implemten the program in chapter 1 but should carefully study the example in chapter 2 where a distinction between more traditional functional decomposition and the object-oriented approach is explored in some detail. ... Read more

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This book is the fourth and final volume in a series entitled The Modula-2 Software Component Library. This volume complements the others by providing algorithms needed for many common computer tasks. Specifically: sorting algorithms, as a prelude to searching; searching algorithms, a postlude to sorting; pattern matching, a specialized form of searching; hashing, a group of widely used searching techniques capable of performing insertions in constant time; and primitive data types utilities for characters, strings, and numeric qualities. To further complement the preceding volumes, the algorithms are presented in a generic fashion. ... Read more