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| | Marlin Thomas directs the Samuel Rudin Academic Resource Center at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, where he also teaches as an adjunct in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include the history of computer science, the ethical implications of information technology, and programming languages. In addition, he is the author of several plays that have been produced in New York City. |
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Introduction to recursive programming
Rubio-Sánchez M., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 2018. 451 pp. Type: Book (978-1-498735-28-5)
Self-directed action can challenge the notion of action and defy understanding. It can trap one in a disorienting hall of mirrors or in a contorted posture. Recursion, which employs a function that calls itself, is an example. It is as...
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Mar 20 2019 |
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Using SPIN for automated debugging of infinite executions of Java programs
Adalid D., Salmerón A., Gallardo M., Merino P. Journal of Systems and Software 9061-75, 2014. Type: Article
Traditionally, debugging has been guided by heuristics and intuition, but the complexity of contemporary software, which is especially evident in the increasing number of modules and the side effects of their interactions, demands algo...
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Aug 26 2014 |
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Concise computer mathematics: tutorials on theory and problems
Bagdasar O., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2013. 118 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319017-50-1)
Jon von Neumann once said, “In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” Reviewing definitions and procedures and working out solutions to problems are two ways to achieve unders...
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Apr 14 2014 |
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Beginning Objective-C
Dovey J., Furrow A., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2012. 404 pp. Type: Book (978-1-430243-68-7)
Early on in this book (chapter 1), the authors present a line graph illustrating the growth of Objective-C from 2002 through 2012. The graph spikes dramatically around mid-2009. This graph interestingly mirrors how a reader with modera...
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Mar 8 2013 |
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Solutions of equations in languages
Hesselink W. Formal Aspects of Computing 22(5): 537-545, 2010. Type: Article
Context-free grammars, their implications, and their uses have been understood and well studied for more than a half-century, but the author demonstrates that there is more to learn and to make explicit by articulating two characterist...
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Feb 10 2011 |
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Classification of computably approximable real numbers
Zheng X. Theory of Computing Systems 43(3): 603-624, 2008. Type: Article
Real numbers can be represented mathematically in several equivalent ways, but these representations are not equivalent when they are used to compute real numbers and real functions. Although all representations yield computable real n...
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Jul 21 2009 |
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Core Java volume 1: fundamentals
Horstmann C., Cornell G., Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2007. 864 pp. Type: Book (9780132354769)
Any book that has endured through eight editions must have more than longevity in its favor. In the case of this work, it has completeness of treatment, attentiveness to the needs of the reader, a well-paced exposition of topics, a con...
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Aug 15 2008 |
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Cornucopia limited: design and dissent on the Internet
Coyne R., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. 272 pp. Type: Book (9780262033367)
To the vast majority of users, the inner workings of the Internet--its complex structure of servers, wires, routers, Internet protocol (IP) addresses, protocols, and supporting software--are invisible, irrelevant, and...
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