1. Google.com
Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Annual Revenue: $50.2 billion
The best example of a website becoming “ubiquitous” is perhaps the strange case of Google.
The word “google,” which simply means to look something up on Google, was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
For years, Google has been the standard of search engines. Using...
MPlayerX
MPlayerX (not to be confused with MPlayerOSX) is developed by MPlayer
and FFmpeg. This just means that this video player is capable of
handling almost any type of media formats in the world of entertainment.
There are no extra codec packages or plug-ins required.
The only thing that you need...
Intro to c++
C++ is a general-purpose, case-sensitive, free-form programming language that supports procedural, object-oriented, and generic programming.
C++ is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features.
C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&T Bell Laboratories in the early...
Writing a C++ Program
Properly written C++ programs have a particular structure. The syntax must be correct, or the compilerwill generate error messages and not produce executable machine language. This chapter introduces C++by providing some simple example programs and associated fundamental concepts. Most of the concepts...
Exercises
1. What is a compiler?2. How is compiled code different from source code?3. What tool does a programmer use to produce C++ source code?4. What tool(s) does a programmer use to convert C++ source code into executable machine code?5. What does the linker do?6. Does the linker deal with files containing source code or or machine language code?7. What...
Summary
This book does not attempt to cover all the facets of the C++ programming language. Experiencedprogrammers should look elsewhere for books that cover C++ in much more detail. The focus here is onintroducing programming techniques and developing good habits. To that end, our approach avoids some ofthe more esoteric features of C++ and concentrates...
LEARNING PROGRAMMING WITH C++
We generally do not think about the preprocessor, compiler, and linker working as three separateprograms (although they do); the tools we use make it appear as only one process is taking place:translating our source code to an executable program.• Debuggers. A debugger allows a programmer to more easily trace a program’s execution in orderto locate...
DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
• Compilers. A compiler translates the source code to target code. The target code may be the machinelanguage for a particular platform or embedded device. The target code could be another sourcelanguage; for example, the earliest C++ compiler translated C++ into C, another higher-level language.The...
DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
processing is still an active area of artificial intelligence research. Natural languages, as they are usedby most humans, are inherently ambiguous. To understand properly all but a very limited subset of anatural language, a human (or artificially intelligent computer system) requires a vast amount of backgroundknowledge that is beyond the capabilities...
Development Tools
If very few humans can (or want) to speak the machine language of the computers’ processors and softwareis expressed in this language, how has so much software been developed over the years?Software can be represented by printed words and symbols that are easier for humans to manage thanbinary sequences. Tools exist that automatically convert a higher-level...
Software
A computer program is an example of computer software. Software makes a computer a truly universalmachine transforming it into the proper tool for the task at hand. One can refer to a program as a piece ofsoftware as if it were a tangible object, but software is actually quite intangible. It is stored on a medium. Ahard drive, a CD, a DVD, and a USB...
The Context of Software Development
A computer program, from one perspective, is a sequence of instructions that dictate the flow of electri-cal impulses within a computer system. These impulses affect the computer’s memory and interact withthe display screen, keyboard, mouse, and perhaps even other computers across a network in such a wayas to produce the “magic” that permits humans...
