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[PROGRAMMING]. MCCRACKEN, Daniel D. (b.1930). Digital computer programming. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1957.
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[PROGRAMMING]. MCCRACKEN, Daniel D. (b.1930). Digital computer programming. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1957.
8o. Original green cloth, pictorial dust-jacket.
THE FIRST GENERAL INTRODUCTION IN BOOK FORM TO COMPUTER PROGRAMMING. Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill had published the first textbook on programming in 1951. That book described programs written specifically for EDSAC. In the second edition of that textbook, also published in 1957, the authors applied their ideas to other existing computers, but much of the EDSAC-specific nature of the book remained. In this book, McCracken employs a mythical computer he calls TYDAC to illustrate principles of computer programming that were applicable to all stored-program computers. OOC 783.
[With:] AGAPEYEFF, Alexander d'. "A potted history of automatic programming." Mimeographed sheets, stapled. London, 1962. OOC 409 -- BACKUS, John W. et al. "The FORTRAN automatic coding system." In Proceedings of the Western Joint Computer Conference, February 26-27, 1957, Los Angeles, California (1957): 188-98. Original blue printed wrappers. OOC 446 -- BERLEKAMP, Elwyn R. Algebraic coding theory. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Original blue cloth, black cloth spine, printed dust-jacket. OOC 486 -- DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION. Small computer handbook. N.p.: Digital Equipment Corporation, 1967. Original pictorial soft covers. OOC 571 -- GORN, Saul and PARKER, E. "Common programming language task." Final report AD6OUR1 on task D. . . Part I. Mimeographed typescript. [Philadelphia: Moore School of Electrical Engineering,] June 30, 1960. Black cloth. OOC 636 -- KAY, Martin and ZIEHE, Theodore. Natural language in computer form. Santa Monica, Calif.: The RAND Corporation, February 1965. Original gray printed wrappers. OOC 743 -- NAUR, Peter, ed. Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60. Copenhagen: Regnecentralen, 1960. Reproduced typescript. Original gray printed wrappers. OOC 813 -- ROSEN, Saul. Programming systems and languages. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. Original tan cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 868 -- STRACHEY, Christopher and WILKES, Maurice Vincent. Some proposals for improving the efficiency of ALGOL 60. Offprint from Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 4 (November 1961). Unbound as issued. Signed by Wilkes on the first leaf. OOC 917.
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THE FIRST GENERAL INTRODUCTION IN BOOK FORM TO COMPUTER PROGRAMMING. Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill had published the first textbook on programming in 1951. That book described programs written specifically for EDSAC. In the second edition of that textbook, also published in 1957, the authors applied their ideas to other existing computers, but much of the EDSAC-specific nature of the book remained. In this book, McCracken employs a mythical computer he calls TYDAC to illustrate principles of computer programming that were applicable to all stored-program computers. OOC 783.
[With:] AGAPEYEFF, Alexander d'. "A potted history of automatic programming." Mimeographed sheets, stapled. London, 1962. OOC 409 -- BACKUS, John W. et al. "The FORTRAN automatic coding system." In Proceedings of the Western Joint Computer Conference, February 26-27, 1957, Los Angeles, California (1957): 188-98. Original blue printed wrappers. OOC 446 -- BERLEKAMP, Elwyn R. Algebraic coding theory. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Original blue cloth, black cloth spine, printed dust-jacket. OOC 486 -- DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION. Small computer handbook. N.p.: Digital Equipment Corporation, 1967. Original pictorial soft covers. OOC 571 -- GORN, Saul and PARKER, E. "Common programming language task." Final report AD6OUR1 on task D. . . Part I. Mimeographed typescript. [Philadelphia: Moore School of Electrical Engineering,] June 30, 1960. Black cloth. OOC 636 -- KAY, Martin and ZIEHE, Theodore. Natural language in computer form. Santa Monica, Calif.: The RAND Corporation, February 1965. Original gray printed wrappers. OOC 743 -- NAUR, Peter, ed. Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60. Copenhagen: Regnecentralen, 1960. Reproduced typescript. Original gray printed wrappers. OOC 813 -- ROSEN, Saul. Programming systems and languages. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. Original tan cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 868 -- STRACHEY, Christopher and WILKES, Maurice Vincent. Some proposals for improving the efficiency of ALGOL 60. Offprint from Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 4 (November 1961). Unbound as issued. Signed by Wilkes on the first leaf. OOC 917.
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