Programming in Modula-3: An Introduction in Programming with Style

✍ Scribed by László Böszörményi, Carsten Weich (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 576
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The difficulty of programming lies in the need to bring our ideas into a form that can be processed by a machine. This book shows how to write and understand even complex programs by applying proper structures and good style. It uses the programming language Modula-3, which relies on and extends the well-known concepts of Pascal and Modula-2. The steps needed to become an expert programmer are based first of all on the elegant type concept of Modula-3. The programming style supported by this concept leads the reader step-by-step toward coping with complex data structures and algorithms. Such new and exciting subjects as object-oriented and parallel programming are touched upon. The book requires no prior programming experience.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
What is programming?....Pages 1-25
Metalanguages....Pages 27-33
The structure of programs....Pages 35-51
Predefined data types....Pages 53-81
Statements....Pages 83-114
User-defined simple types....Pages 115-123
Expressions and declarations....Pages 125-138
Composite static types....Pages 139-172
Structuring algorithms....Pages 173-199
Modules....Pages 201-225
Dynamic data structures....Pages 227-270
Recursion....Pages 271-303
Objects....Pages 305-347
Persistent data structures....Pages 349-370
Exception handling....Pages 371-383
Parallel programming....Pages 385-426
Back Matter....Pages 427-571

✦ Subjects

Programming Techniques; Software Engineering