Product Description: Comparative Programming Languages identifies and explains the essential concepts underlying the design and use of programming languages and provides a good balance of theory and practice. The author compares how the major languages handle issues such as declarations, types, data abstraction, information hiding, modularity and the support given to the development of reliable software systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This textbook introduces the Ada programming language in a manner suitable for students with little or no previous experience of programming. It shows how solutions can be systematically designed and how these solutions can then be implemented on a computer...read more

Product Description: This book is concerned with the theory and techniques required in the construction and implementation of complex software systems. Improved understanding may come from developing suitable models and theories of such systems to guide appropriate experimentation...read more