From object technology pioneer and ETH Zurich professor Bertrand Meyer, winner of the Jolt award and the ACM Software System Award, a revolutionary textbook that makes learning programming fun and rewarding. Meyer builds his presentation on a rich object-oriented software system supporting graphics and multimedia, which students can use to produce impressive applications from day one, then understand inside out as they learn new programming techniques. Unique to Touch of Class is a combination of a practical, hands-on approach to programming with the introduction of sound theoretical support focused on helping students learn the construction of high quality software. The use of full color brings exciting programming concepts to life. Among the useful features of the book is the use of Design by Contract, critical to software quality and providing a gentle introduction to formal methods. Revolutionary introduction to programming First introductory programming book to use concepts of Design by Contract for software safety and reliability Examples and exercises allow all students to build graphical and multimedia applications right from the start INDICE: Preface.- Basics.- How things work.- Algorithms and data structures.- Recursion and trees.- Oject-oriented Techniques.- Operations as objects: agents and lambda calculus.- Event-driven design.- Program correctnes.- Writingrequirements and documentation.- Designing graphical user interfaces.- Testing and debugging.- Towards software reuse.- Using the EiffelStudion environement.- Eiffel syntax specification.- The C# language.- The Java language.- The C language.- The C++ language.- Index.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-92144-8
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 700
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés