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As with most programs, there are multiple ways of accomplishing the same end. You will discover more advanced techniques as you become familiar with the software (e.g., using hot buttons versus top menu vs. keyboard commands, etc.) You will have questions that are not answered here. In such cases consult the Adobe Photoshop online help or the printed manual.
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Like most books in this area, it is mostly organised by concept (rather than by language), with a (here, relatively short) history of programming languages at the beginning. The “foundational” chapters are then concerned with computability, Lisp, syntax, semantics and functional programming. Next, a number of chapters deal with the traditional concepts in procedural languages, followed by a third section on object-oriented programming. The final chapters, as usual in texts in this area, deal with concurrency and logic programming (the latter chapter is by Krzystof Apt). As one might have expected from the author, this book is an extremely rich source of important information, subtle issues, and diverse and challenging exercises. This makes it an excellent text for further reading. As an introductory text, however, it is less suitable. This is mostly due to structuring and content, and partially to bias.
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