the elements of style 2000 4th edition paperback

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... at the end, and it has no other connections with the rest of the program The logical IF reduces the apparent complexity of the program Occasionally the third branch of an arithmetic IF can serve ... phase, too often neglected in the past changes The first edition avoided any direct mention of the term "structured gramming," to steer well clear of the religious debates then prevalent ... Trang 3320 THE ELEMENTS OF PROGRAMMING STYLE CHAPTER 2 We also deleted the inaccessible STOP statement and the explicit indexing in the READ statements, indented the code, and numbered the statements

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... important phase, too often neglected in the past We have revised The Elements of Programming Style extensively to reflect these changes The first edition avoided any direct mention of the term "structured ... Trang 1THE ELEMENTS OF PROGRAMMING STYLE SECOND EDITION Kernighan and Plauger Trang 2THE ELEMENTS OF PROGRAMMING STYLE Second Edition Brian W Kernighan Bell ... Manual of Style Copyright© McGraw-Hill, Inc 1970 By permission Trang 6CONTENTS vii Trang 8PREFACE to the Second Edition The practice of computer programming has changed since The Elements of Pro-gramming

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... difference between the concept of a company mission statement and the concept of a strategic vision is that what we do") whereas the principal concern of a strategic vision is with the company's ... unite to get the company moving in the intended direction Trang 718 The benefit of a vivid, engaging, and convincing strategic vision is the intended direction following? 
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... glutton." And the whole science of æsthetics is, in the depth of it, expressed by one passage of Goethe's in the end of the second part of Faust;—the notable one that follows the song of the Lemures, ... one of the combinations of color, and the other of the combinations of line and form, which might each of them separately engage us in as intricate study as that of the science of music But of the ... description of Form, and expression of Thought 55 Now it is easy to show you the essential cause of the vast discrepancy in the character of these two buildings In the vault of the apse of the Duomo of

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... objects They are... set of composition 1 Proportion and scale - Size and shapes of objects - Reference point of the objects - Use these points to analise how big you should draw the other ... weight,... and there interaction with other enviroments These masses evoke thought , feelings and tensions - seeking out the purest form of the subject Non Objective Masses They refer to ... called Analogus are adjacent in the circle. They have at least one common colour. e.g. Yellow / Orange / Red ( Common colour is Yellow ) - The use of these two types of colours can create a purposeful

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... ) of the other, the base of that whichhas the greater angle is greater than the base of the other Dem.—Of the two sides AB, AC, let AB be the one which is not the greater, and with it make the ... 18The Solution of a problem is the method of construction which accomplishesthe required end.The Demonstration is the proof, in the case of a theorem, that the conclusionfollows from the hypothesis; ... of one equal to the angle CGB contained by the two sides of the other Therefore [iv.] these triangles have the angle F BC equal to theangle GCB, and these are the angles below the base Also the

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... investing at the peak of the stock market each year Another investor starts later but is the world ’ s luckiest investor, buying at the absolute bottom of the market every year The fi rst investor, ... Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, calls credit cards “ the crack cocaine of the fi nancial world They start out as a no - fee way to get instant gratifi cation, but the next thing ... Trang 14The Elements of Investing return not only on your original savings but also on the accumulated interest that you have earned on your past investment of your savings The secret of getting

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... the pockets of the croupiers of the fi nancial system, not into your retirement funds That ’ s why active managers do not beat the market — and why the market beats them DON ’ T SOME BEAT THE ... through their pension plans, 401(k) plans, or IRAs, professional managers, as a group, cannot beat the market because they are the market Because the players in the market must, on average, earn the ... Swensen, the brilliant portfolio manager for the Yale University endowment fund We are convinced there will be “ another Warren Buffett ” over the next 40 years There may even be sev-eral of them

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... mutual funds The fund pools the money from thousands of investors and buys a portfolio of hundreds of individual common stocks The mutual fund collects all the dividends, does all the accounting, ... broadly diversifi ed bond fund The U.S Treasury issues large amounts of bonds These issues are considered the safest of all and these bonds are the one type of security where diversifi cation ... all of your money into the stock market during a market peak in early 2000 An investor who put everything in the market at the start of 2000 would have experienced a negative return over the

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... before the end of the year to profi t from the supposed regularity But then investors will have to jump the gun even earlier, buying two days before Christmas and selling two days before the end of ... on the subject of minimizing costs, we need to warn you to beware of stockbrokers Brokers have one priority: to make a good income for them-selves That ’ s why they do what they do the way they ... well-above-average returns because of the low costs you pay Trang 9 V In his attempts to unlock the complex secrets of the universe, Albert Einstein, the greatest scientist of the twentieth century,

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... served as a member of the President ’ s Council of Economic Advisers, Dean of the Yale School of Management, Chair of Princeton ’ s Economics Depart-ment, and as a director of major corporations ... Swensen Trang 5 ABOUT THE AUTHORS BURTON G MALKIEL Burton G Malkiel is the Chemical Bank Chairman ’ s Professor of Economics at Princeton University and the author of the bestselling, A Random ... investing, these are the books we recommend: John C Bogle, Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). John C Bogle, The Little Book of

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... Columbus, one of the Italian mariners whom the decline of their own republics had put at the service of the world and of adventure, seek- ing for Spain a westward passage to the Indies as a set- off against ... step in the development of the subject has been reached. The extent of subdivision will vary with the length of the composition. For example, a short notice of a book or poem might consist of a ... station. A soldier of proved valor, they entrusted him with the defence of the city. A soldier of proved valor, he was entrusted with the defence of the city. Young and inexperienced, the task seemed...

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... men. The samples were then frozen and stored in a stainless steel tank. In the lefthand version of the first example, the reader has no way of knowing whether the stain was in the center of the ... bring the flesh and the blood. The more clearly the writer perceives the shape, the better are the chances of success. 13. Make the paragraph the unit of composition. The paragraph is a convenient ... instead, to preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope of the discussion. The Elements of Style does not pretend to survey the whole field. Rather it proposes to...

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