If you want to learn how to write batch file programs for Windows, theres no better guide than Windows Batch File Programming.
There are either no standards for building graphic user interfaces (GUIs), or too many standards. Open software architectures like X Windows support portable GUIs, but most application development targets the IBM PC and Macintosh environments.
If you have experienced some hostility toward computers, you probably realized even then that they really are necessary for life to continue in the manner to which millions of us have become accustomed.
In manufacturing processes that involve physical products, testing is carried out to detect materials defects. In software development all errors are human errors, and it is tempting to hope that errors can be eliminated with better methods.
Although there are quite a few new wrinkles to MSC 6.0, this book sticks quite closely to exploring compiler features that relate to the theme of building optimized libraries.
It is the purpose of this text to present certain fundamental programming concepts that are commonly encountered in business uses of a computer.
In the early 1970s, all but the largest organizations depended on centralized computer centers, through which information flowed in carefully controlled batches, or to which some users were connected with interactive access to very limited processing functions.
The most frightening words in the English language are, our computer is down. you hear it more and more as you go about trying to conduct your business.
Charles Gordon mumbled to himself as he picked his way around the boxes being unloaded from the truck blocking the entrance to Xfields. Monitors, modems, and graphics boards labels identified the boxes.
For this first edition of the book, were going to begin by examining the environment in which an organization must function. After all, a systems professional is faced with detailing and developing systems which must conform to the organizations surroundings.