Programming Abstraction In C 1st Edition Eric Roberts by Eric Roberts 9780133454840, 0133454843 instant download after payment.

This text represents a major revision of the course reader that we’ve been using at
Stanford for the last several years. The primary goal of the revision was to bring the
approach more closely in line with the way C++ is used in industry, which will in
turn make it easier to export Stanford’s approach to teaching data structures to a
larger fraction of schools. Even though this quarter’s draft is reasonably complete,
the text remains somewhat rough. In particular, these chapters have not yet had the
benefit of the wonderful copyediting service that my wife Lauren Rusk has provided
for all my books.
This textbook has had an interesting evolutionary history that in some ways
mirrors the genesis of the C++ language itself. Just as Bjarne Stroustrup’s first
version of C++ was implemented on top of a C language base, this reader began its
life as my textbook Programming Abstractions in C (Addison-Wesley, 1998). In
2002-03, Julie Zelenski updated it for use with the C++ programming language,
which we began using in CS106 B and CS106 X during that year. Although the
revised text worked fairly well at the outset, CS106 B and CS106 X have evolved in
recent years so that their structure no longer tracks the organization of the book. In
2009, I embarked on a comprehensive process of rewriting the book so that students
in these courses can use it as both a tutorial and a reference. As always, that process
takes a considerable amount of time, and there are almost certainly some sections of
the book that need a substantial rewrite.
I want to thank my colleagues at Stanford over the last several years, starting
with Julie Zelenski for her extensive work on the initial C++ revision. My
colleagues Keith Schwarz, Jerry Cain, Stephen Cooper, and Mehran Sahami have
all made important contributions to the revision. I also need to express my thanks to
several generations of section leaders and so many students over the years, all of
whom have helped make it so exciting to teach this wonderful material. Finally, I
want to thank the students in CS106 B in winter quarter 2011-12 who put up with a
partially finished reader and contributed many error reports and suggestions.
I’ve always believed that programming is one of the most challenging and
exciting intellectual activities that humans have ever discovered. By staying close
to the machine, C++ gives you all the freedom you need to build applications that
take advantage of the full power of modern computing. I hope you all enjoy the
ride.