C A Software Engineering Approach
Authors: Darnell, Peter A., Margolis, Philip E.
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to Software Engineering For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar. Shakespeare, Hamlet In the previous chapter, we introduced same basic information about pro gramming and programming languages, particularly C. If this were a book about building bridges, this first chapter might have been an introduction to the tools you would neeci-hammer, saw, drill, etc. Obviously there is a lot more to building a good bridge than simply knowing how to use the tools. Similarly, creating software products requires considerably more skill than simply wielding the programming tools. There is an entire discipline called software engineering that deals with designing, creating, testing, and maintaining large software products. In this chapter we introduce some key software engineering themes, many of which we will revisit through out the course of the book. 10 2: Introduction to Software Engineering 2.1 Introduction Though the cost of computer hardware-the silicon chips containing the millions of transistors that form the instruction set and memories-has shown a consistent trend downward over the years, the cost of software has not followed suit. The high cost of software is due largely (and para doxically) to the ease and flexibility with which it can be shaped.
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"Rarely does an introductory book on a programming language balance the basic and the advanced so well." - Computer Reviews
"Outstanding textbook for novice C users." - Computer Book Review
"Excellent for a systematic person who wants a running start in C." - UnixWorld
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction to Programming
Pages 1-8
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Introduction to Software Engineering
Pages 9-30
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C Essentials
Pages 31-56
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Scalar Data Types
Pages 57-91
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Control Flow
Pages 92-125
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- C A Software Engineering Approach
- Authors
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- Peter A. Darnell
- Philip E. Margolis
- Copyright
- 1996
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
- Distribution Rights
- Distribution rights for Cyprus: Pergamon Bookshop, Nicosia, Cyprus
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4612-4020-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4612-4020-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-0-387-94675-7
- Edition Number
- 3
- Number of Pages
- XXVIII, 498
- Number of Illustrations
- 191 b/w illustrations
- Additional Information
- Originally published in the series: Springer Books on Professional Computing
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