Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive

This fully revised eighth edition of Joyce Farrell’s PROGRAMMING LOGIC AND DESIGN: COMPREHENSIVE prepares student programmers for success by teaching them the fundamental principles of developing structured program logic. Widely used in foundational Programming courses, this popular text takes a unique, language-independent approach to programming, with a distinctive emphasis on modern conventions. Noted for its clear, concise writing style, the book eliminates highly technical jargon while introducing universal programming concepts and encouraging a strong programming style and logical thinking. This edition’s comprehensive approach prepares students for all programming situations with introductions to object-oriented concepts, UML diagrams, and databases. Quick Reference boxes, a feature new to this edition, provide concise explanations of important programming concepts. Each chapter now also contains a Maintenance Exercise, in which the student is presented with working logic that can be improved. In addition to each chapter’s text-based Debugging Exercises, this edition now includes Flowchart Debugging Exercises as well.
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