... 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 ... investors.
This argument does not justify the high frequency of stock splits,
however, which are used to keep prices below a couple of hundred
dollars—an amount that is affordable by all investors.
CHECKING ... 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,...
... offers a tool for rehabilita-
tion: a guide to thoughtful investing. For earnest investors, he shows how
to live profitably with the moodiness of Mr. Market.’’
David Henry, Associate Editor, Finance, ... 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, 185
Unilever, ... Cunning-
ham explains then debunks them. He gets down to the fundamentals that
investors must know about companies in order to choose reliable winners
in the stock market.’’
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named day, date, month and year. day will contain the day of the week and
date will contain the day of the month. What type is each variable? Assign
values to those variables that represent today’s ... In order to write a program, students have to understand the algorithm,
know the programming language, and they have to be able to debug. I
think too many books neglect debugging. This book includes ... 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...
... now.
Thanks to the editors at Lulu who worked on HowtoThinkLike a Computer Scientist.
Thanks to all the students who worked with earlier versions of this book and all the con-
tributors (listed ... as tohowto improve the distribution
of the book.
ã David Pool sent in a typo in the glossary of Chapter 1, as well as kind words of encouragement.
ã Michael Schmitt sent in a correction to ... language.
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puter Scientist.
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the distribution of the book.
ã David Pool sent in a typo in the glossary of Chapter 1, as well as kind words
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Chapter 1
The way of the program
The goal of this book is to teach you tothinklike a computer scientist. This way
of thinking ... in china.
Foreword
By David Beazley
As an educator, researcher, and book author, I am delighted to see the completion
of this book. Python is a fun and extremely easy -to- use programming language
that...