Publisher's Synopsis
This book introduces Modula-2 through an object-oriented programming approach which has been developed over the past five years on the BSc and MSc computer science courses at Hatfield.;Chapter 1 introduces the main features of Modula-2 through an example program, whilst chapter 2 introduces the concepts required for object-oriented program design. All the essential high level features of the language are covered in some detail in chapters 3 to 8. Chapter 9 explores the main attributes of an object-oriented language and considers to what extent these features are represented in Modula-2. Chapters 10-12 develop object-oriented solution to simple example through the implementation of some of these features.;The low level features of the language are discussed in chapter 13, and chapter 14 extends these features to discuss the implementation of basic operating system functions in Modula-2.;This book is suitble for beginners in programming following an undergraduates in computer science and as self-study text for more experienced high-level language programmers who wish to learn Modula-2 in the context of an object-oriented approach.;We recommend read and implement the example program in chapter 1 then read chapter 2 to obtain a flavour of object oriented design; however they should leave a full study of the example program in chapter 2 until they have become fully familiar with the material in chapters 3 to 8. The more experienced programmer may not need to implemten the program in chapter 1 but should carefully study the example in chapter 2 where a distinction between more traditional functional decomposition and the object-oriented approach is explored in some detail.
