Programming information

This section provides information about programming in general and programming PCs in particular.

See also: Programming

Programming (general):

	Compilers and Compiler Generators A complete online copy of Pat Terry's textbook on compiler writing, originally published by Thomson in 1997 but now out of print.    ¤  17 Jan 1996. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.scifac.ru.ac.za/compilers/
	A Gentle Introduction to SQL An introductory tutorial on SQL, the standard database query language used by most modern database systems.    ¤  Feb 2000. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~andrew/gisq/
	A Critique of C++ A well-argued polemic by Ian Joyner about object-oriented programming in general and C++ in particular, with comparisons to Eiffel and Java.    ¤  1 Jan 2000. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.elj.com/cppcv3/
	Introduction to Programming Langauges A comparative study of programming languages, their development and the development of the programming paradigms that they embody.    ¤  3 Aug 2001. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://cs.wwc.edu/~aabyan/221_2/PLBOOK/
	Object-Oriented Programming FAQ Frequently-asked questions about object-oriented programming in general.    ¤  2 Apr 1996. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.cyberdyne-object-sys.com/oofaq2/
	The Functional Programming FAQ Questions and answers about functional programming in general.    ¤  1 Aug 2001. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/gmh/faq.html
	What is Artificial Intelligence? A layman's introduction by John McCarthy, the original creator of Lisp.    ¤  Apr 2000. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/whatisai.html
	The Real Time FAQ Frequently asked questions from the newsgroup comp.realtime.    ¤  11 May 1999. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.realtime-info.be/encyc/techno/publi/faq/rtfaq.htm
	The Visual Programming FAQ Frequently asked questions from the newsgroup comp.lang.visual.    ¤  10 Mar 1998. Redistributable electronically. Home site: http://www.faqs.org/
	Object-Oriented Analysis and Design An introductory course.    ¤  1997. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.firstnet.co.uk/meniscus/oocnotes.htm (now gone)
	The UML 1.3 Specification The full specification of the OMG's Unified Modelling Language. This is a PDF file, so you may need to install a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat or Ghostview before you can read it.    ¤  Jun 1999. Freely redistributable. Home site: http://www.omg.org/
	Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts and Terminology An introduction by Brad Appleton.    ¤  Feb 2000. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/
	A Design Patterns Tutorial A brief tutorial on patterns.    ¤  1996. Free for non-profit use. Home site: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~dbutler/tutorials/winter96/patterns/

Programming (PC-specific):

	Ralf Brown's Interrupt List    ¤  3 Jan 1999. Freely redistributable. Home site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/ralf/pub/WWW/files.html
	The PC Games Programmer's Encyclopedia Information about games programming issues with source code snippets.    ¤  26 Jun 1994. Freely redistributable. Home site: ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/programming/gpe/ (now gone)
	The Game Developer's FAQ Information about developing computer games from the newsgroup rec.games.programmer.    ¤  8 May 1997. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.strangecreations.com/library/games/rgpfaq.htm
	Windows Sockets: A Quick and Dirty Primer A guide to writing Winsock-based Internet applications for Windows.    ¤  31 Dec 1999. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://world.std.com/~jimf/papers/sockets/winsock.html

PC software specifications:

	The DPMI Specification The definition of the DOS Protected Mode Interface, a standard which allowed DOS programs to break the 640K limit.    ¤  26 Jul 1990. Freely redistributable. Home site: ftp://ftp.qdeck.com/pub/general/dpmispec.zip (plain text only; HTML markup by John English)
	The VCPI Specification The specification of the Virtual Control Program Interface, another standard for writing DOS programs which could break the 640K boundary.    ¤  12 Jun 1989. Freely redistributable. Home site: ftp://ftp.qdeck.com/pub/general/vcpi.zip (plain text only; HTML markup by John English)
	The XMS Specification The Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Extended Memory Specification, which was designed to allow DOS programs to access memory above the 1M boundary.    ¤  Jan 1991. Freely redistributable. Home site: ftp://ftp.qdeck.com/pub/general/xms30.txt (plain text only; HTML markup by John English)
	The Winsock Specification The specification for the implementation of Berkeley sockets used to provide Internet connectivity on Windows systems.    ¤  20 Jan 1993. Freely redistributable. Home site: ftp://ftp.qdeck.com/pub/general/winsock.doc (MS Word document; HTML markup by John English)