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Cohill, Andrew
VPI & SU
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Visual Basic for Windows inside and out
Cornell G., Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Berkeley, CA, 1992. Type: Book (9780078817649)
It is difficult to write a review of any BASIC language product without digressing into a long discussion of whether anyone should even be using BASIC. Nonetheless, I am not going to digress here: this review is about the book, not the...
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Aug 1 1993 |
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The Waite Group’s GW-BASIC primer plus
Mackenroth D., Sams, Indianapolis, IN, 1991. Type: Book (9780672227394)
One has to wonder why anyone would publish a book on GW-BASIC, but it may be the most widely distributed programming language because it is distributed free with many MS-DOS systems. Mackenroth’s book offers no surprises; t...
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Nov 1 1992 |
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Principles and guidelines in software user interface design
Mayhew D. (ed), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1992. Type: Book (9780137219292)
The author has been largely successful in her attempt to exhaustively treat the large and growing field of user interface design. Every kind of detail can be found, from general principles of interface design to extremely detailed re...
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Sep 1 1992 |
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Common-sense Basic
Dean A., Effinger G., Harcourt Brace &’ Co., Orlando, FL, 1991. Type: Book (9780155122970)
Designed for a one-semester programming course in which the students receive their first exposure to programming and computers, this text uses ANSI BASIC with structured extensions; this dialect is actually Microsoft’s &#...
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Dec 1 1991 |
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Comparison of hierarchic agglomerative clustering methods for document retrieval
Willett P., El-Hamdouchi A. The Computer Journal 32(3): 220-227, 1989. Type: Article
This paper tests four methods of clustering--the single linkage, complete linkage, group average, and Ward methods. The authors performed an exhaustive series of tests, measuring the performance of the clustering algorithms on...
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Mar 1 1990 |
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Office systems
Christie B., Gardiner M., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987. Type: Book (9789780262022606)
This is a chapter from the book Information technology and people: designing for the future. I mention that because after reading the work, one has the feeling that there must be something more. It covers three topics in the dev...
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Dec 1 1988 |
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Mental models and software maintenance
Littman D., Pinto J., Letovsky S., Soloway E. Empirical studies of programmers (, Washington, DC, 981986. Type: Proceedings
This paper discusses a study that attempted to discover how professional programmers approach program maintenance. They found two distinct modes of behavior: the systematic strategy and the as-needed strategy. Programmers using the fir...
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Mar 1 1988 |
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The soft side of software: a management approach to computer documentation
Foehr T., Cross T., Wiley-Interscience, New York, NY, 1986. Type: Book (9780471815273)
This is a short, softcover book that attempts to present a comprehensive view of the role of documentation in computer systems. This includes design, development, and production of documentation. Many peripheral issues that impinge upo...
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Jan 1 1987 |
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CONTEXT: an on-line documentation system
Ragan R. Software--Practice & Experience 16(3): 217-224, 1986. Type: Article
This paper describes CONTEXT, an online documentation system that runs on CDC CYBER mainframes. A tree-structured database is used to store screens of information. In addition to vertical links between the screens, horizontal links are...
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Sep 1 1986 |
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An approach to user specification of interactive display interfaces
Bass L. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering SE-11(9): 686-698, 1985. Type: Article
This paper presents a theory to explain the nature and relationships among data displayed on interactive terminals. The theory allows for independence from a particular data source, so the data to be formatted and displayed could be fr...
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May 1 1986 |
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