The Essential Palm Programming Guide: Quickly Customize or Create Your Own PDA Programs
Quickly customize or create your own PDA programs.
By now, you are familiar with the basic operation of the Palm operating system and have become proficient with many of the standard applications. But, in so doing, you have had to adapt your style and needs to the design and limitations of each program. Wouldn't it be great if you could design programs to meet your individual style? Well, now you can!
The Essential Palm Programming Guide will teach you how to modify popular programs or customize your own program for either business or personal use. No prior programming experience is required. You will learn how to program in 2 popular languages, HotPaw Basic and CASL, via step by step instructions and numerous examples. A Palm emulator is also included so you can test and run any program on your computer before downloading it to your PDA.
Price: CDN$ 37.88
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Paperback: 506 pages Bk&CD-Rom edition (November 2001)
Language: English
Publisher: Data Becker; ISBN: 1585070521
High Performance Compilers for Parallel Computing
Techniques for constructing compilers for parallel computers have been in academic and commercial environments over the past 30 years. Some of these techniques are not quite mature and in common use, but there is still much active research in this area. Most of the reference material is scattered over many conference proceedings and journals. This book is intended to serve as coherent presentation of the important basic ideas used in modern compilers for parallel computer systems. It can be used as a reference or as a text for second or third course on compilers at the senior undergraduate or graduate level.
This book differs from previous collections in that its focus is not the automatic discovery of parallelism from sequential programs, though that is also included. Instead, its focus is techniques to generate optimized parallel code, given the source program and target architecture. The optimizer in high performance compilers is organized as a deep analysis phase followed by a code generation, or synthesis, phase. This book follows that organization.
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Hardcover: 570 pages Facsimile edition (August 2000)
Language: English
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company; ISBN: 0805327304
Build Your Own PC
Each new edition of Build Your Own PC has been completely updated to address the latest technologies and reader feedback. The 3rd edition starts out with the basic vocabulary and functionality of PC parts, something you'll need to be familiar with before you start shopping. Next comes selecting parts and getting a good price, including how to avoid spending twice as much for a system that's only 10% faster. The third chapter, introduced in the second edition, points out the common mistakes people make when assembling PCs and how to avoid them. The fourth chapter is a complete, illustrated, step-by-step guide to building a 2 GHz Pentium 4 in a tower case. This Pentium 4 is built with a new Socket 478 CPU, 800 MHz RAMBUS (RDRAM) memory, DVD, and RAID and SCSI drive array options for high performance and increased data integrity. The fifth chapter is a Socket A system for the AMD Athlon and Duron in a midtower, with 266MHZ DDR memory, a CD burner (CDR) and a screen! -by-screen introduction to CMOS Setup. Both of these systems are new to the 3rd edition and include 4X AGP video adapters with 32 MB RAM.
Chapter Six is held over from the 2nd edition, although many of the photographs were retaken. The chapter details a Pentium III / Celeron system built in a minitower. The Pentium III is a Slot 1 version, and the Celeron is a Socket 370. Both are supported by the highly integrated motherboard which includes onboard video, network adapter, sound and modem. Chapter Seven, new to the 3rd edition, is a quick install guide to Windows XP Home Edition. Chapter Eight is also new to the 3rd edition, and it contains troubleshooting procedures for a new PC, in a step-by-step checklist format. The photo glossary that was included in the first two editions has been dropped from the 3rd. There are approximately 250 photographs in the book, over 200 of which illustrate the step-by-step instructions for building the three example computers.
Price: CDN$ 39.95
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Paperback: 200 pages (August 25, 2000)
Language: English
Publisher: Osborne; ISBN: 0072124679
Home Computer Buying Guide 2002
Updated and revised for 2002, Consumer Reports Home Computer Buying Guide helps you get the most out of your system, from homework to home office. Includes present ratings and reviews of home-office equipment, including computers, printers, digital cameras, monitors and modems.
This is truly an A to Z look at every component that a PC user needs. It not only objectively rates everything, as expected from CR, but also explains computer terminology: RAM, ROM, MODEM, BROWSER, SEARCH ENGINE, COOKIES, SPAM, etc. There is a guide to the brands (hardware and software), and help in choosing peripherals that are just right for you. Setting up a home office? Here is some good advice. This book is up-to-date, with the latest information just before it went to print.
Price: CDN$ 13.15
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Paperback: 256 pages Rev&Updtd edition (October 2001)
Language: English
Publisher: Consumer Reports Books; ISBN: 0890439591
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Upgrading and Repairing PCs (5th Edition)
A reference based title written in an approachable first person point of view. This book teaches a reader how to upgrade his PC peripherals to increase productivity on his PC without intimidating or offending him. Straight-forward conversational tone on upgrading hardware and software the decision to upgrade or not. The reader will be introduced into some of this upgrading by task orientation - you want to record your own CD.
This title provides basic information in purchasing and installing the newest technology for multimedia and more. Finally the reader learns how various software applications and operating systems upgrades can help him use or not use his PC more efficiently. This book gives its readers the foundation on what a PC is and how to upgrade it in everyday language without being intimidating or insulting. Complete Idiot s Guide to Upgrading Your PC, 3rd Edition is a task-oriented explanation of PC hardware and software upgrading. It is a plain-English approach that is easy to read and fun for the reader to use when learning about how to upgrade and fix his PC. There is increased coverage on how to add peripherals multimedia, new hard disk, more ram, faster modem- including the latest MMX, 56 K modem, CD-R, DVD and more.
Discover quick and easy ways to determine your true upgrade needs before you do it, learn tips and tricks to avoid or postpone an upgrade, enhance the operation of the Windows operating system with PC upgrades, and learn how to add or change floppy, CD-ROM, or DVD drives.
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Paperback: 497 pages 5 edition (November 5, 2001)
Language: English
Publisher: Alpha Books; ISBN: 0028642392
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