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| | Edgar Chavez is an independent consultant specializing in IBM mainframe computing, software quality assurance, and change management. He has more than 30 years of experience in the industry. He has worked on supervisory, project management, and technical assignments dealing with all phases of systems development and maintenance in finance, administration, transportation, information retrieval, and operating systems support. Among others, Edgar’s assignments have included: change management consultation; customizing, updating, and enhancing a software configuration management system; designing and building online database maintenance and retrieval systems; designing, building, and maintaining order processing and sales reporting systems; designing and building an online system to manage technical documents; designing, building, and enhancing accounting systems; designing and building automated scripts to test order processing systems for Y2K compliance; and providing technical support to DEC-VAX system managers in more than 100 sites worldwide. Edgar has experience with a variety of hardware platforms, operating systems, and programming languages. He holds a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University, and is bilingual in English and Spanish. He enjoys reading in a wide variety of topics, listening to classical music, and gardening. He and his wife live in West Chester, Pennsylvania. |
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 The algorithm design manual (3rd ed.)
Skiena S., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2020. 793 pp. Type: Book (978-3-030542-55-9)
Algorithms have been around for a long time, for example, the Euclidean algorithm to find the maximum common divisor of two integers is about 2400 years old. Nowadays, though, “algorithm” refers to instructions exec...
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May 12 2021 |
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Modern Fortran explained: incorporating Fortran 2018
Metcalf M., Reid J., Cohen M., Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2018. 522 pp. Type: Book (978-0-198811-88-6)
First introduced in 1957, FORTRAN was designed to be easier than an assembler language for writing algebraic equations on a computer. In this, FORTRAN was spectacularly successful....
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Mar 19 2021 |
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Finite-state techniques: automata, transducers and bimachines
Mihov S., Schulz K., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2019. 324 pp. Type: Book (978-1-108485-41-8)
The mathematical theory of automata is one of the great ideas of computer science, easy to state and understand, yet with great explanatory power and potential for problem solving....
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Oct 5 2020 |
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The Linux command line: a complete introduction (2nd ed.)
Shotts W., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2019. 504 pp. Type: Book (978-1-593279-52-3)
This is a wonderful introduction and tutorial meant to make readers comfortable and productive in the command line. It is not about system administration, Bash scripts, or any other tool, although they are all mentioned and covered at ...
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Nov 1 2019 |
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Foundations of programming languages (2nd ed.)
Lee K., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2017. 370 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319707-89-1)
Programming is a science-based craft. For a programmer, the better the science, the better the craft. Foundations of programming languages provides a computer science (CS)-based treatment of the foundations of three programming ...
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Apr 8 2019 |
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Numbers and computers (2nd ed.)
Kneusel R., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2017. 346 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319505-07-7)
Numbers, wonderful mathematical idealizations that they are, have fascinated humans for as long as there have been humans. Computers, much more recent creations, are fascinating in their own way. For many, both are useful but intractab...
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May 24 2018 |
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Interpreting Lisp: programming and data structures (2nd ed.)
Knott G., Apress, New York, NY, 2017. 150 pp. Type: Book (978-1-484227-06-0)
In writing Interpreting Lisp: programming and data structures, Knott aims to meet several goals in a concise and direct manner: first, to provide a gentle but precise introduction to Lisp; second, to illustrate the flavor of Lis...
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Mar 8 2018 |
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The Dart programming language
Bracha G., Addison-Wesley Professional, London, UK, 2016. 224 pp. Type: Book (978-0-321927-70-5)
Dart is a general-purpose, object-oriented, optionally typed programming language designed to be easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to run efficiently in multi-core, distributed environments, including the World Wide Web. The Dart...
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Jan 20 2017 |
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Common Lisp recipes: a problem-solution approach
Weitz E., Apress, New York, NY, 2015. 744 pp. Type: Book (978-1-484211-77-9)
Lisp, the second high-level programming language invented at the dawn of the computer age, has never been out of fashion, especially for artificial intelligence and other specialized areas. When the Lisp community recognized the benefi...
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Oct 27 2016 |
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Metaprogramming Elixir: write less code, get more done (and have fun!)
McCord C., Pragmatic Bookshelf, Raleigh, NC, 2015. 120 pp. Type: Book (978-1-680500-41-7)
Elixir is one of the programming languages built on top of BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine. That makes it inherently worthy of consideration since Erlang is well known as a platform for building highly reliable, massively parallel fau...
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Jul 21 2016 |
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