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Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition
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Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

by P. J. Deitel, H. M. Deitel, D. T. Quirk
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1552 pages
46h 20m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

Chapter 1. Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual C++

 

The chief merit of language is clearness.

 
 --Galen
 

High thoughts must have high language.

 
 --Aristophanes
 

Our life is frittered away with detail. ...Simplify, simplify.

 
 --Henry David Thoreau
 

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time.

 
 --W. S. Gilbert
 

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

 
 --John F. Kennedy

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you will learn:

  • Basic hardware and software concepts.

  • The different types of programming languages.

  • Which programming languages are most widely used.

  • The history of the Visual C++ programming language.

  • Some basics of object technology.

  • The history of the UML—the industry-standard object-oriented system modeling language.

  • The history of the ...

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