Study Guide to Accompany Shari Lawrence Pfleeger s
Software Engineering: Theory and Practice
By
Forrest Shull and Roseanne Tesoriero
(very usefull book form student who study Software Engeneering)
This book has been written to support a practically oriented course in programming language
translation for senior undergraduates in Computer Science. More specifically, it is aimed at students
who are probably quite competent in the art of imperative programming (for example, in C++,
Pascal, or Modula-2), but whose mathematics may be a little weak students who require only a
solid introduction to the subject, so as to provide them with insight into areas of language design
and implementation, rather than a deluge of theory which they will probably never use again
students who will enjoy fairly extensive case studies of translators for the sorts of languages with
which they are most familiar students who need to be made aware of compiler writing tools, and to
come to appreciate and know how to use them. It will hopefully also appeal to a certain class of
hobbyist who wishes to know more about how translators work.
This book is about 3D math, the study of the mathematics behind the geometry of a 3D world. 3D
math is related to computational geometry, which deals with solving geometric problems algorithmically.
3D math and computational geometry have applications in a wide variety of fields that use computers to model or reason about the world in 3D, such as graphics, games, simulation,
robotics, virtual reality, and cinematography.
This book covers theory and practice in C++.
The book presents a historical background of past and present guided missile systems and the evolution of modern weapons,discusses the generalized missile equations of motion, aerodynamic forces and coefficients, the important subject of the various types
of tactical guidance laws and/or techniques, weapon delivery systems and techniques,strategic
missiles and cruise missile theory and
design.
This book provides the reader with the basics in radio engineering,
the techniques needed to generate, control, detect, and use radio waves. The
text approaches the relevant problems both from the electromagnetic theory
based on Maxwell抯 equations and from the circuit theory based on Kirchoff
and Ohm抯 laws. Brief introductions to the electromagnetic theory as well
as to the circuit theory are provided. Besides passive transmission lines and
components, active RF circuits are also addressed.
Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
I enjoyed reading this book for a number of reasons. One reason is that itaddresses high-speed analog design in the context of microwave issues. This isan advanced-level book, which should follow courses in basic circuits andtransmission lines. Most analog integrated circuit designers in the past workedon applications at low enough frequency that microwave issues did not arise.As a consequence, they were adept at lumped parameter circuits and often notcomfortable with circuits where waves travel in space. However, in order todesign radio frequency (RF) communications integrated circuits (IC) in thegigahertz range, one must deal with transmission lines at chip interfaces andwhere interconnections on chip are far apart. Also, impedance matching isaddressed, which is a topic that arises most often in microwave circuits. In mycareer, there has been a gap in comprehension between analog low-frequencydesigners and microwave designers. Often, similar issues were dealt with in twodifferent languages. Although this book is more firmly based in lumped-elementanalog circuit design, it is nice to see that microwave knowledge is brought inwhere necessary.Too many analog circuit books in the past have concentrated first on thecircuit side rather than on basic theory behind their application in communications.The circuits usually used have evolved through experience, without asatisfying intellectual theme in describing them. Why a given circuit works bestcan be subtle, and often these circuits are chosen only through experience. Forthis reason, I am happy that the book begins first with topics that require anintellectual approach—noise, linearity and filtering, and technology issues. Iam particularly happy with how linearity is introduced (power series). In therest of the book it is then shown, with specific circuits and numerical examples,how linearity and noise issues arise.
