Advanced Programming Programming and Operating Systems by Harry Katzan, Jr. Assistant Professor of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Science, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
If you are already familiar with at least one higher-level programming language such as FORTRAN or COBOL and have a working knowledge of an operating system - this book will noticeably improve your chances for advancement in the computer field by helping you to understand and use important advanced concepts in programming and systems design. Representing the first unified treatment of such advanced programming topics as assemblers, compilers, and syntactical methods ; string manipulation and list processing ; computer languages; and operating systems... the author has drawn extensively from examples given in the popular programming languages of COBOL to represent syntactical methods; ALGOL for the study of algorithmic languages; PL/1 in treatments of list processing and compile-time facilities; and FORTRAN for more general applications. And as an added convenience, four appendices one for each of these programming languages have been included for reference, review, and comparison of language capabilities. As a further aid to understanding each of these important topics, the book is logically arranged in two major sections. Part I, Programming Systems, is the core of the material and gives you a solid background in such areas as assembler programs and symbol tables; string manipulation and its representative language SNOBOL; basic compiler methods; grammars and syntactical methods; basic list processing concepts including the list processing facilities in PL/1; the structure of computer languages; advanced concepts in compiler design; and the construction and use of decision-logic tables.