Product Description: A unique, practical approach to working with collection classes in Java 2 Software developers new to Java will find the practical, software-engineering based approach taken by this book extremely refreshing. With an emphasis more on software design and less on theory, Java Collections explores in detail Java 2 collection classes, helping programmers choose the best collection classes for each application they work on...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book provides a gently paced introduction to techniques for implementing programming languages by means of compilers and interpreters, using the object-oriented programming language Java. The book aims to exemplify good software engineering principles at the same time as explaining the specific techniques needed to build compilers and interpreters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Programming Language Syntax and Semantics introduces methods for formally specifying the syntax and semantics of programming languages.

Product Description: The first of a series of three books on programming languages directed to undergraduate and graduate students of computer science and information technology. Explains both the basic and some advanced concepts underlying almost all programming languages, and surveys the major programming paradigms with overviews of several important languages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Introducing methods for implementing programming languages, David Watt shows how to write simple compilers and interpreters, relating these clearly to the syntax and semantics of the source language. qpa Following a top-down approach, the illustrated text, which contains a working compiler and interpreter for a small programming language, starts by viewing compilers and interpreters as "black boxes", then goes on to examine their working in more and more detail...read more

Product Description: This book introduces the basic concepts that underlie functional, object-oriented and imperative programming languages. It then goes on to cover more advanced topics.

Product Description: This text should be useful both to novices and those with experience of programming in languages other than PASCAL. There is a wide selection of problems, exercises and case studies.