Programming with C++, Second Edition, is an update of the highly successful first editiona bestseller in Schaum's computer science lineand reflects the new ISO standard for C++, rendering previous C++ guides obsolete. Essential for programmers, 280,000 computer science students taking first-level classes, and thousands of advanced placement students, this book is the perfect supplement to the leading textbooks in introductory and higher-level programming courses.
is part of it. (...) I suppose the book doesn't want to go to far into C stuff. C is essential to writing clear and concise code in C++. But at the price the book is at its a good buy. I've got it.
For the person that is stuck in C programming.......2004-08-04
Who referred to this book having mistakes:
They seem to be stuck in the stone ages of C programming.
Since the new ANSI standard came out, (which compilers are still attempting to catch up to), header files have not used a .h extension, C Standard library headers have been renamed and so on.
Every negative point the person makes indicates a complete lack of knowledge, especially accurate knowledge of the C++ standard.
As such that review should be completely and utterly disregarded.
This book is definitely head and shoulders above the crap that people like Herb Schildt have been putting out.
Thanks.
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This book makes available a comprehensive, detailed and carefully organized treatment of the foundations for the theory of iteration of rational functions of a complex variable. The material extends from the orginial memoirs of Fatou and Julia to the recent and important results and methods of Sullivan and Shishikura. Many of the details of the proofs have not occurred in print before. The theory of dynamical systems and chaos has recently undergone a rapid growth in popularity, in part due to the spectacular computer graphics of Julia sets, fractals, and the Mandelbrot set. This text focuses on the specialized area of complex analytic dynamics, a subject which dates back to 1916 and is currently a very active area in mathematics.
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Pictures and math........2004-10-02
Many people outside mathematics know of Julia sets, Mandelbrot sets, attractors, chaos, and fractals. They might have encountered them in color renditions as moving pictures that serve as computer screen savers. The book is about the underlying mathematics.
The rational functions (i.e., quotients of polynomials) form a relatively simple class of functions of a single complex variable. One of the operations we do on functions f is substitution: Starting with a complex number z (i.e., a point in the plane), repeated application of f yields a sequence of complex numbers (points), z, f(z), f(f(z)), etc. The resulting sets have a surprisingly rich structure, and they serve as models for dynamics that arises in different subjects. They are the subject of this book. I will let the reader discover the precise definitions in the book: The sets are defined from some basic geometric and analytic properties of these sequences. The set of points z where the sequence has one of two exclusive analytic properties divides the plane into two parts, an `inside' and an `outside', if you like. Well, the mathematical definition is more complicated than that, but the idea is roughly as I said.
The French mathematician Gaston Julia (1893-1978) was the first to make precise the sets that we now know from a host of fun computer experiments. And it is interesting that Julia invented the sets in 1919 without the benefit of computer programs.
Indeed the subject stayed in the background in the mathematical fashions until it became possible to easily visualize the possibilities with simple computer experiments. As a result, the interest in Julia's work had a more renaissance, and its connections to exciting properties in non-linear dynamics turned into an exciting subject in pure and applied mathematics.
This beautifully written book is primarily about the mathematical side of the subject, but it is full of hands-on-examples that illustrate the theory, and that are easy to follow for students. The exercises are lovely, and make the book eminently attractive for the teaching of the subject to students who will need very little more in the way of background than a familiarity with the complex numbers.
Palle Jorgensen, October 2004.
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A Fresh Look at Iteration, Grades 7-12 Iteration, the process of repeating something over and over again, occurs in all areas of science and mathematics from repeating an experiment to see if the results remain the same, to calculating interest on a loan. Iteration is a time-honored process in mathematics, but technology allows us to look at iteration with a fresh eye. Share the astounding discoveries scientists and mathematicians have made in recent years and how those discoveries are used in many different areas of study. The book can be used in many mathematics courses but is especially suited to algebra.
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Iteration: A Toolkit of Dynamic Activities (The Tool Kit of Dynamic Activities).......2007-03-13
Muy básico, tal ves para escuela media.
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Markov decision process (MDP) models are widely used for modeling sequential decision-making problems that arise in engineering, economics, computer science, and the social sciences. It is well-known that many real-world problems modeled by MDPs have huge state and/or action spaces, leading to the notorious curse of dimensionality that makes practical solution of the resulting models intractable. In other cases, the system of interest is complex enough that it is not feasible to specify some of the MDP model parameters explicitly, but simulation samples are readily available (e.g., for random transitions and costs). For these settings, various sampling and population-based numerical algorithms have been developed recently to overcome the difficulties of computing an optimal solution in terms of a policy and/or value function. Specific approaches include:
• multi-stage adaptive sampling;
• evolutionary policy iteration;
• evolutionary random policy search; and
• model reference adaptive search.
Simulation-based Algorithms for Markov Decision Processes brings this state-of-the-art research together for the first time and presents it in a manner that makes it accessible to researchers with varying interests and backgrounds. In addition to providing numerous specific algorithms, the exposition includes both illustrative numerical examples and rigorous theoretical convergence results. The algorithms developed and analyzed differ from the successful computational methods for solving MDPs based on neuro-dynamic programming or reinforcement learning and will complement work in those areas. Furthermore, the authors show how to combine the various algorithms introduced with approximate dynamic programming methods that reduce the size of the state space and ameliorate the effects of dimensionality.
The self-contained approach of this book will appeal not only to researchers in MDPs, stochastic modeling and control, and simulation but will be a valuable source of instruction and reference for students of control and operations research.
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Robert J. Sawyer - called "the dean of Canadian science fiction" by the Ottawa Citizen and "just about the best science fiction writer out there these days" by the Rocky Mountain News - won the World Science Fiction Society's Hugo Award for his novel Hominids and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Award for his novel The Terminal Experiment.
Iterations is Sawyer's first short story collection, gathering 22 fantastic tales from such diverse places as Amazing Stories, the Village Voice, the Globe & Mail, and Nature.
Among them, these stories have:
- Won the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award ("the Aurora")
- Won the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award,
- Been nominated for the Hugo,
- Nominated for and the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award,
- Been performed on CBC Radio, and
- Appeared in best-of-the-year collections.
In Iterations, you'll:
- See Sherlock Holmes solve the problem of the missing aliens,
- Find out what really happened to the bones of Peking Man,
- Learn the truth about the alligators in the sewers of New York,
- Visit a future Toronto sealed inside a steel dome,
- Encounter pure evil aboard the Russian space station Mir,
- Follow a serial killer as his consciousness is transferred into a Tyrannosaurus rex, and
- Meet a man doomed to commit murder over and over again because of the pressures of Canadian publishing.
Each story is accompanied by Sawyer's own commentary, and the collection is introduced by award-winning SF author James Alan Gardner.
Customer Reviews:
Thank God for Amazon!!!.......2007-10-08
I have loved the work of Mr. Sawyer for several years now, but unfortunately my local bookstore stocks very few of his novels (their Sci-Fi section is nothing but Star Wars and space erotica. Oy vey!). Thankfully, Amazon has a fantastic selection of his works, and I am able to find novels of his that were not readily available in the States. I began reading Mr. Sawyer's work with the "Neanderthal" trilogy when I had run out of Star Trek books which interested me. Wow! I was blown away. This is true Science Fiction in the sense that Mr. Sawyer knows the science behind the topics which he writes and goes indepth to the point where it does not seem like fiction but a true possiblity. The man is a genius and should be on everyone's "Top 10" fiction writers of all time. His short stories are just as good. I may be biased by having Chinese ancestory, but I particularly liked the "Peking Man" tale. This book begs you to read just one more, until before you know it, you've finished the whole thing! If you want a great selection of short stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat then buy this tout de suite! Also, for Sawyer fans, if you haven't already, check out "Calculating God". I believe it to be Sawyer's greatest (and perhaps most controversial) work to date. That book will have you pondering the questions of life and the universe like never before.
Just as good as his novels.......2007-05-12
Iterations
The dictionary defines iteration - as doing or saying again; a repeated performance repeating, repetition, the act of doing or performing again.
I say Iterations (2002) by Robert J. Sawyer is a mighty fine collection of his short stories. It contains:
An Introduction by James Alan Gardner
The Hand You're Dealt
Peking Man
Iterations
Gator (possibly the birthplace of the Quintaglio Ascension
The Blue Planet
Wiping Out
Uphill Climb (per the author the first Quintaglio story)
Last but Not Least
If I'm Here, Imagine Where They Sent My Luggage
Where the Heart Is
Lost in the Mail
Just Like old Times
The Contest
Stream of Consciousness
Forever
The Abdicatation of Pope Mary III
Above It All
Ours to Discover
You See But You Do Not Observe
Fallen Angel
The Shoulders of Giants
Publication History
About the Author
Treat yourself and read this book. I highly recomend this book.
Gunner May,2007
Unfortunately, Robert J. Sawyer is a genius........2007-03-03
Sawyer in short-story form is as engaging as he is in novel form. There isn't one story in the book that didn't hook me, and I'm a pretty tough audience. First of all, Sawyer simply knows how to lay down words. I'm sure he gets as much editing as the next guy, but edits can't save a bad story. Sawyer doesn't write bad stories.
Secondly, Sawyer has a unique talent for going where others have gone, and finding the new twist that no one has thought of. In the eponymous story, the author tackles the old "parallel universe" theme and turns it 90 degrees from the path everyone else has taken. Every story has something just as fresh to offer, which I imagine is getting harder and harder to do as memes are explored and exhausted by other writers.
The book is a worthy addition to Sawyer's body of work, and a worthy addition to any science-fiction fan's bookcase.
Not a very high success-ratio, actually.......2006-04-15
Sawyer is best known for his novels, especially the "Neanderthal" trilogy. While I have mostly enjoyed most of his longer work, he does have a tendency to over-explain and to bring in too much detail about our present world, which means part of each novel dates rather quickly. He also displays a somewhat naive enthusiasm and occasional didacticism (with a decidedly Canadian flavor) that reminds me of Heinlein. In any case, his short stories often are better written than his novels. There are a number of award-winners and nominees among the twenty-two stories in this collection, which were published over a period of two decades, but to my mind the best of them are "The Shoulders of Giants," a paean to the spirit of adventure and discovery, "Lost in the Mail," about correcting people's life-choices, and "Stream of Consciousness," which is a hard science first-contact yarn reminiscent of the heyday of ANALOG. And "Star Light, Star Bright" is an interesting take on the consequences of living inside a Dyson Sphere. But the very best is "You See But You Do Not Observe," a very original and well realized story involving Sherlock Holmes and Schroedinger's Cat. "The Hand You're Dealt," on the other hand, is a murder mystery written for a libertarian-theme anthology, but the philosophical underpinnings get very little time and the solution to the mystery comes out of nowhere. "Just Like Old Times," which won a number of awards, takes a good idea and waters it down. "Peking Man" is kind of a cute riff on vampirism, but goes nowhere. "Wiping Out," about the psychological and moral effects of total interplanetary war, is pretty thin. "Last But Not Least" has no science fiction element at all that I can see. And the title story, about killing off alternate versions of yourself whom you don't approve of, simply wasn't very successful. The others in the collection, some of them very short indeed, are minor works.
Some really good tales and some not so good!.......2005-12-18
I am not usually a big fan of the short story. There are some really good ones in this collection by Sawyer who in my opinion is the current best at the scifi novel. Each tale is presented with an introduction as to how Sawyer came up with the idea for the tale.
There is an excellent tale involving Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson being drawn into the future to solve a puzzling riddle. There is also a tale about high school student who is kind of nerdy but smart. He is always the last one picked (or not even picked) for sports teams in school. He gets the ultimate revenge against the jocks that wronged him.
There is are several tales that deal with parallel universes and dinosaurs. All in all I really enjoyed about half the tales and the other half were just so-so. Since you can skip over the tales that you don't care for, I give the book 4 stars based on the really good ones.
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- Neural software saves the day
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The Jericho Iteration
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"I couldn't put it down" (John Varley)
Through an earthquake-ravaged Midwest, an investigative reporter chases down the story of a lifetime.
"Breathtaking...Steele's science [is] harder than Heinlein's...his breakneck pacing and gift for characterization are reminiscent of the late master's best work." (Washington Post
Customer Reviews:
Incredibly prescient.......2006-06-21
While reviews for this book were ho-hum when it first came out, The Jericho Iteration deserves a re-reading in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Just as the federal government uses earthquake-ravaged St. Louis for its experiments in controlling and containing civilian populations, look at the disaster that continues in New Orleans to see how on the mark Steele was in this book written long before the levees were breached. Ten months after Katrina hit and the public schools are closed, the city government is trumped by federal agencies, and the local population slides into despair rather than action. While the sfnel element of a networked AI stands out from today's nightmare, Steele has always had an excellent eye toward political extrapolation. Give this one a read, or a re-read if you glossed over it.
A Great Read!.......2005-01-13
The Jericho Iteration takes place in St. Louis in 2013, after a destructive earth quake strikes, leaving the city in ruins. The survivors in the city and the city itself are controlled by the ERA, or Emergency Relief Agency, planning on initiating a new government under their rule. The book is a narrative, and told by the main character, Gerry Rosen. Gerry is a reporter for a newspaper called The Muddy Inquirer. He is trying to piece his life back together when he discovers, by mistake, that his fellow reporter and friend, John, has found out important information on a project called Ruby Fulcrum which the ERA is trying to keep secret. Gerry isn't discouraged; he's used to people trying to cover things up. He doesn't realize who and what he's up against until people he knows mysteriously begin to die, and he finds himself on the run from the ERA.
The Jericho Iteration is one of the best books I have ever read. It is filled with action with some humor and sadness thrown in. The beginning of this book leaves you wanting more and definately draws the reader in. The climactic moment is very exciting, and the ending wasn't what I expected. I couldn't stop reading this book until I had finished it, and even now I am reading it over. I recommend this book to anyone who likes science fiction and/or to anyone who wants an amazing story.
Neural software saves the day.......2001-07-04
Gerry Rosen clearly has more problems than an ordinary joe should have to deal with. There's the wife he's lost, the deceased son's recurring memory, and the boss from hell. I enjoyed the characterizations, which are seen through Gerry's eyes. The images of St. Louis following a cataclysmic earthquake were compelling. And I was captivated by Gerry's palmtop which might well have been as wondrous as "Box" from "Star Cops" (except it didn't do searches quite so impressively). I'm most critical of Steele's choice of the military, first as rescuers, then as treasonous villains. Surely, there would be huge numbers of Paul Revere's out there to wise the public up to the coup about to happen. What's the Internet good for, otherwise?
Can this really be the author of "A King Of Infinite Space?".......1999-07-22
This one is a real dog. The story line doesn't hold up. OK, St. Louis is wrecked. Where is the rest of the country? If S.L. is the only major city devastated why wouldn't it be rebuilt like L.A. after the quake? Don't any of the people in St. Louis have relatives in the rest of the country that they can go live with? Can ALL of the National Guard types be vicious thugs? Steele obviously has some unresolved issues with the military.
Jericho delivers..........1999-05-07
Steele weaves an imaginative story of government corruption and corporate intrigue with The Jericho Iteration. I wasn't completely satisfied with his characterizations of the AI. It seemed a bit too human in it's reactions, but Steele's style and tightly paced writing delivered the goods in the end.
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This is a NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIV WARMINSTER PA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A955013. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Plyophen 23-900 and 23-057, two phenolic adhesives widely used in self-lubricating bearing applications, are being replaced with Plyophen 23-900X and 23-057X. The proposed alternatives are supposedly no different from the original adhesives since the change was made in the choice of catalyst used and then later removed during processing. A program was developed in which the basic material characteristics such as the chemical, mechanical, physical and thermal properties of the original adhesives are evaluated and compared with those of the proposed alternatives. The study includes floating roller peel test, Fourier transform infrared analysis, single lap shear test, thermomechanical analysis and viscosity measurements. Although this is an interim report, results so far indicate that there are definite differences between the original adhesives and the proposed alternatives.
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