how to think like

... 1990s. The only meritorious argument favoring stock splits is that they reduce the per share price of stock and thus enable a wider investor group to participate. If no U.S. company in history had ever ... monitoring mechanism that lends credibility to the financial statements. For that credibility to be meaningful, how- ever, the auditor must work closely with members of the board of directors, ... incentive is to set modest targets. In a stretch setting managers are encouraged to set extraordinarily ambitious goals and are then evaluated accord- ing to how they did in one period compared to how...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 11:16

... stock players who realize they played the greatest fool in the Internet stock game, Cunningham offers a tool for rehabilita- tion: a guide to thoughtful investing. For earnest investors, he shows ... philosophy, at General Electric, 224, 227, 229 Stochastic systems, 37 Stock mutual funds, 74, 77 Stock options, 208–212, 216–217 Stock repurchases, 52, 216–217 Stock splits, 217 Stretch philosophy, at ... 197 Telecom Italia, 185 Texaco, 106, 200 Tiffany’s, 106 Time Inc., 179 Tokyo Stock Exchange, 7 Toshiba, 227 TOTAL-FINA, 185 Toys-‘‘R’’-Us, 108 Track Data Corporation, 79 Tweedy Browne, 11 UBS,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 11:16

... lan- guages, so it takes longer to read them. Also, the structure is very important, so it is usually not a good idea to read from top to bottom, left to right. Instead, learn to parse the program in ... Operators Operators are special symbols that are used to represent simple computations like addition and multiplication. Most of the operators in Java do exactly what you would expect them to do, ... it is important to realize that they are not the same thing, except that they happen to have the same value (in this case the string "Never say never."). How to Think Like a Computer...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 16:20

... now. Thanks to the editors at Lulu who worked on How to Think Like a Computer Scientist. Thanks to all the students who worked with earlier versions of this book and all the con- tributors (listed ... languages, so it takes longer to read them. Also, the structure is very important, so it is usually not a good idea to read from top to bottom, left to right. Instead, learn to parse the program in ... language. Thanks also to Chris Meyers, who contributed several sections to How to Think Like a Com- puter Scientist. Thanks to the Free Software Foundation for developing the GNU Free Documentation...

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... Operators and operands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Chapter 1 The way of the program The goal of this book is to teach you to think like a computer scientist. This way of thinking ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 11.3 Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 How to Think Like a Computer Scientist Learning with Python Allen ... talking about how to combine them. One of the most useful features of programming languages is their ability to take small building blocks and compose them. For example, we know how to add numbers...

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... 19 Praise for How to Interview Like a Top MBA “A must r e ad! As someone who has also recruited top MBA can- didates for investment banking, I unequivocally recommend How to Interview Like a Top MBA. ... interviewed candidates from top schools, I used a number of factors to guide my decision making as to whether to support them in the hiring process. Several factors helped me think of some candidates as ... perspectives to others, helping them to secure access to excellent jobs and academic programs as a result. I have enjoyed designing educational resources using different tools that prod people to think...

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... Mayday! Mayday! How to Land a Plane in an Emergency 3. The Gentleman’s Guide To Tipping the aisle of the plane as he struggles against all odds to cram a bag that’s never going to fit into the overhead ... stagecoach and by train, and just as true, if not more so today, when he hops aboard a jet. Here’s how to take to the skies like a classic gent. To do nothing that can either annoy or offend the sensibilities ... translated into a willingness to talk. But if you answer in the merest monosyllables, it should be t aken to mean that you prefer to be left to your own diversions.” If you really don’t want folks to talk...

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