... computer programs. All programming languages are formal languages. natural language: Any of the languages people speak that have evolved nat- urally. portability: A property of a program that can run ... seen are declarations, assignments, and print state- ments. declaration: A statement that creates a new variable and determines its type. assignment: A statement that assigns a value to a variable. expression: ... simplest way to convert a floating-point value to an integer is to use a typecast. Typecasting is so called because it allows you to take a value that belongs to one type and “cast” it into another...
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... diagrams To keep track of which variables can be used where, it is sometimes useful to draw a stack diagram. Like state diagrams, stack diagrams show the value of each variable, but they also show ... importantly: Programming languages are formal languages that have been designed to express computations. Formal languages tend to have strict rules about syntax. For example, 3 + 3 = 6 is a syntactically ... Formal and natural languages 5 1.4 Formal and natural languages Natural languages are the languages people speak, such as English, Spanish, and French. They were not designed by people (although...
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How to Think Like a Computer Scientist pot
... syntactic structure of a program, analo- gous to a word in a natural language. parse: To examine a program and analyze the syntactic s tructure. print statement: An instruction that causes the Python ... interpreter to display a value on the screen. 2 .3 Variable names and keywords 13 A common way to represent variables on paper is to write the name with an arrow pointing to the variable’s value. This ... Operators and operands 17 2.6 Operators and operands Operators are special symbols that represent computations like addition and multiplication. The values the operator uses are called operands. The...
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How to interview like a top mba
... Interview Like a Top MBA!” —D ALE L E F EBVRE MIT graduate, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School graduate Former McKinsey & Company Consultant Managing Partner, Pharos Capital During ... be perceived as too weak in any of these major areas and expect to get a job at a high level at Procter & Gamble. We especially valued can- didates with extraordinary leadership abilities. ... economics major in college, and then I taught math for a number of years. When I was ready to make the transition to become a financial adviser, I had to communicate to American Express why my background...
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Tài liệu HOW TO THINK LIKE BENJAMIN GRAHAM AND INVEST LIKE WARREN BUFFETT PART 8 ppt
... directors, both as a mat- ter of common sense and as a matter of policy. Boards have a com- parative informational advantage and greater motivation to police managerial opportunism than managers do. ... designed to assure that transactions are executed in accordance with management policy and are recorded properly in the accounting records (and to assure that assets are deployed only in accordance with ... preparedness.” Pragmatism Practical intelligence also “acknowledges that nothing quite suc- ceeds as planned” and that what is crucial is “pragmatic adaptability” to what is new. And new always comes—change...
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Tài liệu HOW TO THINK LIKE BENJAMIN GRAHAM AND INVEST LIKE WARREN BUFFETT PART 9 pptx
... 215–217 Capital asset pricing model (CAPM), 29 32 , 34 , 72 Capital markets, globalization and, 186– 187 Capitalization of earnings method of valua- tion, 95–96, 98, 99, 133 , 138 –142 Capitalization rate, ... 171, 222 Euclidean geometry, 44–46 262 SUBJECT INDEX AAA approach, at Coca-Cola, 237 , 241 Accountability, 211 Accounting: auditing and, 217–220 globalization and, 181–1 83, 219 internal financial controls, ... and print media. Professor Cunningham is a magna cum laude graduate of Cardozo and earned his B .A. in economics from the University of Delaware. He was born and raised in Wilmington, Del- aware,...
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