PostScript Language Reference - third edition
THE POSTSCRIPT® LANGUAGE is a simple interpretive programming language with powerful graphics capabilities. Its primary application is to describe the appearance of text, graphical shapes, and sampled images on printed or displayed pages, according to the Adobe imaging model. A program in this language can communicate a description of a document from a composition system to a printing system or control the appearance of text and graphics on a display. The description is high-level and device-independent.
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Introduction to Design Patterns in C#
This is a practical book that tells you how to write C# programs using some of the most common design patterns. It also serves as a quick introduction to programming in the new C# language. The pattern discussions are structured as a series of short chapters, each describing a design pattern and giving one or more complete working, visual example programs that use that pattern. Each chapter also includes UML diagrams illustrating how the classes interact. This book is not a “companion” book to the well-known Design Patterns text. by the “Gang of Four.” Instead, it is a tutorial for people who want to learn what design patterns are about and how to use them in their work. You do not have to have read Design Patterns to read this book, but when you are done here you may well want to read or reread it to gain additional insights.
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An Introduction to VBA in Excel
Visual Basic for Applications, Excel’s powerful built-in programming language, permits you to easily incorporate user-written functions into a spreadsheet. 1 You can easily calculate Black-Scholes and binomial option prices, for example. Lest you think VBA is something esoteric which you will never otherwise need to know, VBA is now the core macro language for all Microsoft’s office products, including Word. It has also been incorporated into software from other vendors. You need not write complicated programs using VBA in order for it to be useful to you. At the very least, knowing VBA will make it easier for you to analyze relatively complex problems for yourself.
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Tutorial: Learning to Program Amos with Visual Basic
You can use Amos 4.0 as a component in the computer programs you write. It is a relatively easy process because Amos lets you work in a general-purpose programming language instead of having to learn some special language. To use Amos 4.0 with your program, you need to program in a language or environment that can control automation servers, e.g., Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft C++, the SPSS scripting facility, SAS, DEC Visual FORTRAN or Borland Delphi 1.
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Introduction to C# Programming
The first section of this tutorial will get you started with C# (pronounced ’see-sharp’). I will not use an IDE like Visual Studio .NET for this. I have chosen to use a simple text editor (I will use ConTEXT, but you can use any text editor you like, but I recommend one with syntax highlighting and auto indent), because it is important that you learn how to write code, and not drag and drop components. This will give you a better understanding of programming, and the code will be written in a much more structured way than you would write it in if you started with an IDE. Later, when you know how to write code, I encourage you to use an IDE such as Visual Studio .NET. It will speed up the code writing, but I do not recommend using it until you are working on “real” projects.
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