An academic dynasty has come together to write an excellent textbook on information retrieval. Stefan Buttcher, Charles Clarke, and Gordon Cormack make up three generations of stellar information retrieval researchers with over fifty years of combined experience. Buttcher was Clarke's doctoral student, and Clarke was Cormack's...

PHP IS A POPULAR PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE that powers many websites. It originally started out as a way to make dynamic websites by generating HTML. Today it stands on its own as a generalpurpose programming language and is available on most web hosting sites. Because of its roots, it is very easy to insert bits and pieces of PHP inside of...

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C++ Programs to Accompany Programming Logic and Design (also known as C++ PAL) is designed to provide students with an opportunity to write C++ programs as part of an Introductory Programming Logic course. It is written to be a companion text to the student’s primary text, Programming Logic and Design, Fifth Edition, by Joyce Farrell....

This book covers a vast array of information related to packetC. It is a complete language reference and contains background information on many unique parts of packetC. As packetC shares much of its grammar with C, the book focuses on being an instructional language reference and not a general C programming introduction, since extensive...