This book provides an accelerated introduction to Maple for scientific programmers who already have experience in other computer languages (such as C, Pascal, or FORTRAN). It gives an overview of the most commonly used constructs and an elementary introduction to Maple programming. The new edition is substantially updated throughout. In...

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SQL, which stands for Structured Query Language, is the language for accessing a relational database. SQL provides a set of statements for storing and retrieving data to and from a relational database. It has gained steadily in popularity ever since the first relational database was unleashed upon the world. Other languages...

The first edition of TCP/IP Network Administration was written in 1992. In the decade since, many things have changed, yet some things remain the same. TCP/IP is still the preeminent communications protocol for linking together diverse computer systems. It remains the basis of interoperable...

If you are anything like me, the following is a common scenario: You are writing some code not in the language you traditionally use. Although you know a needed command in your language of choice, the keyword in the language you are using is not even remotely similar, and you can't even think of a word to type...

The big day is Monday. The day you get to show off what you know about the Unified Modeling Language. The problem is, you’re not really up to speed. Maybe it’s been a while since you worked with UML. Or maybe you just like a challenge. In any event, we’ve got a solution for you...

Measures of software internal attributes have been extensively used to help software managers, customers and users to characterize, assess and improve the quality of software products. The introduction of object-oriented (OO) software provides powerful design mechanisms with which to do this, and new technologies—e.g., OO frameworks, OO...