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Apur-ee.312 net.cse utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!davy 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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