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Software Essentials
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Software Essentials

by Adair Dingle
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
436 pages
12h 27m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 2
Software Development
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   from a tedious process mired in machine
instruction addresses to a high-level description of executable tasks.
At the lowest level, soware execution may be viewed as fetching, evalu-
ating, modifying, and storing data. To understand implementation and
its costs, we rst examine soware execution at the machine level. en
we trace the progression of soware development as it relies on operating
systems, and soware tools, primarily compilers. A short summary of the
evolution of programming languages illustrates the importance of so-
ware design and the appropriate modeling of data through abst ...
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ISBN: 9781439841204