... xxvi
Preface
This book is the second ed ition of the PickA xe, as ProgrammingRuby is known to
Rubyists. It is a tutorial and reference for theRubyprogramming language. If you have
the first edition, you’ll ... and fun.
The first edition of ProgrammingRuby was su c h a book; the second edition is even
better.”
James Britt, Administrato r,
http:/ /ruby- doc.org
The best reaso n to learn a new programming ... using irb, you’d see the values we show in the book.)
Here, the thing before the p eriod is called the receiver, and the name after the period is
the method to be invoked. The first example asks...
... Chapter 5.
The story is different for arrays. When the name of an array is used as an argument, the value
passed to the function is the location or address of the beginning of the array - there is ... or equal to upper), the body of the loop (the three statements enclosed in braces) is
executed. Then the condition is re-tested, and if true, the body is executed again. When the test
becomes false ... consistently.
Most of the work gets done in the body of the loop. The Celsius temperature is computed and
assigned to the variable celsius by the statement
celsius = 5 * (fahr-32) / 9;
The reason for...
... it part of the Eclipse plug-in,
and therefore the contents of the SDK folder are not updated by the OS or Eclipse. The
SDK has its own update mechanism, which has a user interface in the SDK and ... that the JDK is correctly
installed.
Figure 1-1. Welcome screen that you see the first time you run Eclipse
The Android SDK
With
the JDK and Eclipse installed, you have the prerequisites for the ... install the SDK, download the SDK package that corresponds to your system from
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html.
The download is an archive. Open the archive and extract the folder at the...
... -4.
When the 5th thread signals the barrier, one of the waiting threads is allowed
to proceed, and the semaphore is incremented to -3.
But then no one signals the semaphore again and none of the other ... decrements the semaphore, if the result is negative, the
thread blocks itself and cannot continue until another thread increments
the semaphore.
3. When a thread increments the semaphore, if there ... threads, then the processor can work on one for a while, then
switch to another, and so on.
In general the programmer has no control over when each thread runs; the
operating system (specifically, the...
... On the
other hand, it works in the other direction, too: Web programmers are often delighted to discover that
they can take their scripts from a Windows machine and run them unchanged on their ... but there's still only one reference from the variable to the value). There may be other hard
references to the same thingy, but if so, the variable doesn't know (or care) about them. ... named
AUTOLOAD in the undefined subroutine's package (or in the case of an object method, in the package
of any of the object's base classes), then the AUTOLOAD subroutine is called with the same...
... Programming C#, 2
nd
Edition
Jesse Liberty
Publisher: O'Reilly
Second Edition February 2002
ISBN: 0-596-00309-9, 648 pages
The first part of Programming C#, 2ndEdition ... and then invokes either expression1 if the value returned from the conditional
expression is true, or expression2 if the value returned is false. The logic is "if this is true,
do the ... a chemistry experiment. Your program
Programming C#, 2ndEdition
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provide a series of markers along the way (see the notes to Java programmers within the
chapters).
C# Versus C++
While...
... past the end of the lines
list. Try this on your own machine to see what the rest of the module's
documentation string looks like.
2.3.7 Python Library Manuals
Programming Python, 2nd Edition, ... it's always the implicit place where files processed by the
script are assumed to reside, unless their names have absolute directory paths. As
Programming Python, 2nd Edition, O’Reilly ... speed.
There are simply more projects than programmers to staff them.
As a language optimized for developer productivity, Python seems to be the right
answer to the questions being asked by the...
... trademark claim, the designations have been printed in
initial capital letters or in all capitals. ThePragmatic Starter Kit, ThePragmatic Programmer,
Pragmatic Programming, Pragmatic Bookshelf, ... at the return value,
#'user/hello
. The prefix
#'
indicates that the function
was stored in a Clojure var, and
user
is the namespace of the function. (The
user
namespace is the ... clojure
mvn package
The sample code is regularly updated to match the current development head of
Clojure. Check the
README
file in the sample code to see the revision numbers that
the samples were...
... in the right place at the right time and you have
the right equipment. These broadcasts flow on regardless of whether you or anyone
else is listening, and they occur on their own time, in their ... among
others. Though these are all potentially interesting areas for artists and designers, the
focus of the book is on teaching some of the theory and techniques for interaction
design as well as the ... hardware and programming. The resources listed at the
end of the book can provide the names of some materials that might help you explore
these topics.
Conventions Used in This Book
The following...
... division was the
same; Zel’dovich’s great Soviet school were the most powerful advocates of the
HDM picture.
The 1980s also saw another important theoretical development: the idea that
the Universe ... minimising the role of
the cosmological constant in the first edition. Who knows, maybe we will strike it
lucky with one of these additions!
Because of the dominance that observation has assumed over the ... analysis with the
The Robertson–Walker Metric 11
where a = R and the dimensionless variable r = sin ϑ lies in the interval 0 r 1
(r = 0 at the poles and r = 1 at the equator). In the hyperboloidal...
... System.IO.StreamReader(streamToServer);
Programming C#, 2ndEdition
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The call to Read( ) takes three parameters: the buffer, the offset at which to begin reading,
and the size of the buffer:
int bytesRead ... them to the console, or write them to a file, or do
whatever it is you will do with the values sent from the server:
else
{
string theString = new String(buffer);
Console.WriteLine(theString); ... the file, and the cycle continues until the file has
been completely read and transmitted to the client. The client code simply writes a filename to
the network stream to kick off the file read:...