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A WORD ABOUT USING THIS TEXT

This text, I believe, is unique in the computer science education market. Its format has been carefully thought out over approximately five years of research into problem-based and case-based learning methodology. This is a student-centered text: there is no attempt to make this a typical university textbook. There are many very good textbooks on the market that focus on encyclopedic inclusion of issues in the development of programming languages; this is not one of them.

Student-centric can mean different things to different people. This text is meant to be read by students, not faculty. This distinction means that the text presents problems to be solved and then presents the information needed by the student ...

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