Apur-ee.312
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Sat May 8 19:47:47 1982
Re: Wanted: Self-study programming text
A couple of books I might suggest, which aren't too bad (although, as usual,
they could be better) are:
Programming in Pascal (or something like that)
Peter Grogono
~$16.00
-- This is what Purdue EE uses for its EE263 intro
to computer programming. It's not the best book in
the world, however, it is designed as a low-level
book (college freshman), and therefore does cover
the basics rather well. Many examples are given
in the text, and most of them are explained.
PASCAL
Dunno who writes it but it's blue and yellow, with a
picture of Pascal's triangle on it.
~15.00
-- This is (or was, anyway) used by Purdue's CS
department, in the equivalent course to EE263.
I like it a bit better for reference than the one
above, because it takes things in a slightly nicer
order (i.e., everything is covered in one place).
FORTRAN for Humans
~18.00
-- This is a green paperback book, which is used to
teach non-computer-types how to use one of those big
terrifying machines. I kind of like the way things
are covered in it -- it goes slowly enough that even
an Ag student can understand it!
--Dave Curry
decvax!pur-ee!davy
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