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.

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.

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The book presents both a tutorial and a reference on programming the IBM PC microcomputers in the assembler language and on related hardware and architectural issues of the IBM personal computers or IBM-compatible ones. Essentially no previous knowledge of any programming language or about PC architecture is required for this text. The author goes through all the relevant material, starting from the very basics and ending with more advanced topics concerning assembler language programming and the interaction with operating system, in sufficient extent and clarity of exposition.