Mastering Algorithms with Perl 
by Jarkko Hietaniemi, John Macdonald, Jon Orwant
Many programmers would love to use Perl for projects that involve heavy lifting, but miss the many traditional algorithms that textbooks teach for other languages. Computer scientists have identified many techniques that a wide range of programs need, such as: Fuzzy pattern matching for text (identify misspellings!), Finding correlations in data, Game-playing algorithms, Predicting phenomena such as Web tra...
Price: $5.24 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 1999
by Paul Raines, Jeff Tranter
The Tcl language and Tk graphical toolkit are simple and powerful building blocks for custom applications. The Tcl/Tk combination is increasingly popular because it lets you produce sophisticated graphical interfaces with a few easy commands, develop and change scripts quickly, and conveniently tie together existing utilities or programming libraries.One of the attractive features of Tcl/Tk is the wide vari...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 1999
by Jason Hunter
A few years ago, the hype surrounding applets put Java on the map as a programming language for the Web. Today, Java servlets stand poised to take Java to the next level as a Web development language. The main reason is that servlets offer a fast, powerful, portable replacement for CGI scripts.The Java Servlet API, introduced as the first standard extension to Java, provides a generic mechanism to extend th...
Price: $3.25 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 1998
VB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Language
by Paul Lomax
For Visual Basic and VBA programmers, this book boils down the essentials of the VB and VBA languages into a single volume, including undocumented and little-documented areas essential to everyday programming. The convenient alphabetical reference to all functions, procedures, statements, and keywords allows programmers to use this book both as a standard reference guide and as a tool for troubleshooting an...
Price: $4.19 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 1998
History of Programming Languages
by Thomas J. Bergin, Richard G. Gibson
This specially prepared work comprises a living archive of important programming languages, described by the people most instrumental in their creation and development. Drawn from the ACM/SIGPLAN Second History of Programming Languages Conference, this volume, like the earlier book from the first such conference (HOPL), conveys the motivations of the language designers, and the reasons why they rejected exi...
Price: $40.94 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 1996
by Doug Brown, Gregory Satir
C++ is an object-oriented enhancement of the C programming language and is becoming the language of choice for serious software development. C++ has crossed the Single Book Complexity Barrier. The individual features are not all that complex, but when put together in a program they interact in highly non-intuitive ways. Many books discuss each of the features separately, giving readers the illusion that the...
Price: $4.68 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 1995