This book is concerned with concepts in programming languages, issues in their implementation, and how language design affects program development. It is aimed at upper-level undergraduate students and beginning graduate students with some experience in procedural and OO programming. Functional programming experience is claimed to be helpful but non-essential. As a teaching text, it competes with a similarly-named book by Sebesta, a book by (Wilson and) Clark, and others.
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Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the World Wide Web was for a tool which created and gathered knowledge through human interaction and collaboration. Web 2.0 is a stage of development in which the Web is progressing towards this goal. Most analysts define Web 2.0 in terms of the tools that foster online participation in content creation and social interaction. This tends only to produce lists of new software applications or claims of ‘we are the web’, ‘web 2.0 is people’ etc etc. What I’ve attempted to tease out – following examples from Tim O’Reilly and Danah Boyd – is what lies beneath these tools: what makes them so important or useful? Why are they soaring in popularity?
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“Web 2.0” has become a catch-all buzzword that people use to describe a wide range of online activities and applications, some of which the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been tracking for years. As researchers, we instinctively reach for our spreadsheets to see if there is evidence to inform the hype about any online trend. What follows is a short history of the phrase, along with some data to help frame the discussion.
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DocuShare is a web-based application that allows you to easily and efficiently manage electronic content. Using DocuShare, you can store and organize content, collaborate with other users on projects, search for and retrieve content, and automate document processes.
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Use Cisco Unified Personal Communicator to streamline your communication activities. Features described in this guide or in the User Guide include:
• Make phone calls, conference calls, and video calls from your computer
• Display documents and applications to other participants via the web
• Create and store your personal contact list
• Search for contact information in your corporate directory
• Check availability of your colleagues before contacting them
• View your call history and return calls easily
• Listen to and manage voice mail
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In this tutorial, we will be working with NURBS geometry. NURBS surfaces are always XY grids, but these grids can be shaped in different primitive forms. For our purposes, we will create a simple plane. After creating the plane, open the channel editor.
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VisualSVN is a transparent integration of the Subversion version control system to the Visual Studio development environment. VisualSVN allows you to take full control on any changes in the project that are made by you or your colleagues. With VisualSVN you can easily see the full history of modifications and restore previous versions of your project. So, you can treat it as a “smart time machine”.
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Grand Theft Auto 3 was the biggest step forward Rockstar has taken in its existence. The possibility of free roaming in a huge 3D environment combined with the total lack of moral constraints made the game an instant hit. It sparked debates and lawsuits more than any other game in history and in the same time, started a genre of its own. Many of the recent titles have been deemed clones just because the developers chose to use the same principles. Even so, Grand Theft Auto 3 is a great experience six years later. Enter one of the following codes during game play to activate the corresponding cheat function.
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