... 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 ... the syntactic structure of a program, analogous to a word in a natural language. parse: To examine a program and analyze the syntactic structure. print statement: An instruction that causes the ... program that makes it do something other than what the programmer intended. natural language: Any one of the languages that people speak that evolved naturally. formal language: Any one of the languages...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist pot
... to as “machine languages” or “assembly 22 Variables, expressions and sta tements 20 Variables, expressions and sta tements For this reason, it is a good idea to add notes to your programs to ... floating-point. 2. 6 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 ... than what the programmer intended. semantics: The meaning of a program. natural language: Any one of the languages that people speak that evolved naturally. formal language: Any one of the languages...
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Tài liệu HOW TO THINK LIKE BENJAMIN GRAHAM AND INVEST LIKE WARREN BUFFETT PART 8 ppt
... internal controls rests with the board of 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 ... than a year is treated as capital gains at rates no higher than 20 %. Stock buybacks are not always what they seem. They reduce the number of a company’s shares outstanding, thus increasing earnings per ... “performance is measured against how the world turned out to be how well a business anticipated change and dealt with it—rather than against some ‘plan’ or internal number negotiated a year earlier.” Speed...
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Tài liệu HOW TO THINK LIKE BENJAMIN GRAHAM AND INVEST LIKE WARREN BUFFETT PART 9 pptx
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Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 11:16
How to interview like a top mba
... rec- ommend How to 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 ... in order to interview like a top MBA. In my case, I was a mathematics and 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 ... that all leading finan- cial advisers must master. I was able to communicate how my back- ground in math and economics, as well as my internships, had given me skills relevant to the financial advising...
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