Starting Out with Alice or MCSE

Starting Out with Alice: A Visual Introduction to Programming

Author: Tony Gaddis

Starting Out with Alice: A Visual Introduction to Programming presents a fun and motivational way for novice programmers to learn the basic tenets of programming. Using Alice, an innovative and increasingly popular teaching tool, readers from a variety of backgrounds create virtual programming worlds of animations and computer games.

Introduction to Alice and Objects; Programming in Alice; Variables, Functions, Math, and Strings; Decision and Repetition Structures; Methods, Functions, and More about Variables; Events; Lists and Arrays; Recursion.

For all readers interested in programming using Alice.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction to Alice and Objects
1.1 What Is a Computer Program?
1.2 Algorithms and Programming Languages
1.3 Learning to Program with Alice
1.4 Objects
1.5 Classes and the Alice Galleries
1.6 3D Objects and the Camera

Chapter 2 Programming in Alice
2.1 Writing Methods
2.2 Naming Conventions
2.3 Designing a Program
2.4 Comments
2.5 Tips for Setting Up an Initial Scene
2.6 Executing Instructions Simultaneously
2.7 Exporting Your Code for Printing

Chapter 3 Variables, Functions, Math, and Strings
3.1 Variables
3.2 Using Functions
3.3 Creating Math Expressions
3.4 Working with Strings and Text

Chapter 4 Decision and Repetition Structures
4.1 Boolean Values
4.2 The If/Else Decision Structure
4.3 Relational Comparisons and Logical Operators
4.4 The Loop Instruction
4.5 The While Instruction

Chapter 5 Methods, Functions, and More about Variables
5.1 Writing Custom Class-Level Methods
5.2 Saving an Object to a New Class
5.3 Stepwise Refinement
5.4 Passing Arguments
5.5 Using Class-Level Variables as Properties
5.6 Writing Class-Level Functions
5.7 World-Level Methods and Variables
5.8 Using Clipboards
5.9 Tips for Visual Effects and Animation

Chapter 6 Events
6.1 Responding to Events
6.2 Handling Key Press and Mouse Events
6.3 Using Events in Simulations and Games
6.4 Tips for Games and Simulations

Chapter 7 Lists and Arrays
7.1 Lists
7.2 Arrays

Chapter 8 Recursion
8.1 Introduction to Recursion
8.2 ProblemSolving with Recursion

Appendixes
A Installing Alice
B Answers to Checkpoints

Index

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MCSE: Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure Design Study Guide: Exam 70-297

Author: Brad Pric

Here's the book you need to prepare for the Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure exam (70-297).

This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today's certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that earned Sybex the "Best Study Guide" designation in the 2003 CertCities Readers Choice Awards, this book provides:

• Clear and concise information on designing an Active Directory network infrastructure

• Practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience

• Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a testing engine and electronic flashcards for your Palm

You'll also find authoritative coverage of key exam topics, including:

• Creating the Conceptual Design by Gathering and Analyzing Business and Technical Requirements

• Creating the Logical Design for an Active Directory Infrastructure

• Creating the Logical Design for a Network Services Infrastructure

• Creating the Physical Design for an Active Directory and Network Infrastructure

UML 2 Certification Guide or The Gurus Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures XML and HTML

UML 2 Certification Guide: Fundamental & Intermediate Exams

Author: Tim Weilkiens

UML 2 Certification Guide
Fundamental and Intermediate Exams
Tim Weilkiens
Bernd Oestereich

The authors have proven their mettle by teaching UML expertise in classroom settings that led to remarkably high OCUP test passing rates, just weeks after the UCOP Program became available worldwide.
You have taken the right first step to prepare yourself to show what you knowXand this book is the right tool to get you there!
Ж'{ Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Object Management Group, Inc. (from the Foreword)

Carefully reviewed by the organization behind the certification, the Object Management Group, this book offers systematic coverage of the Fundamental and Intermediate exam topics, along with practical advice on passing the tests. The UML 2 Certification Guide is the only official resource for passing these two exams. Introductory UML texts often omit key exam material, but this book is guaranteed to give you all the information you need.

* The official certification resource
* Assumes a basic knowledge of UML so that you can focus immediately on the exams
* Written by two authors known for their skill as trainers, consultants, and developers
* Developed systematically to enable you to master all exam topicsXwithout exception
* Covers the use of UML for applications, as required by the exams, both inside and outside of the realm of software development
* Includes a practice exam, glossary, list of books, and website information

Tim Weilkiens is a coach and advisor at oose Innovative Informatik GmbH, a leading German consultancy devoted to information technology for business. He has been involved withobject-oriented software development since 1991. He is considered one of the top ten UML experts in the world.

Bernd Oestereich is a managing director at oose Innovative Informatik GmbH and the author of a number of books and professional articles. His extensive experience as a coach, trainer, and consultant has dealt with issues ranging from project management to software architecture to software engineering.

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The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML

Author: Ken Henderson

The Microsoft Transact-SQL programming language has become an increasingly popular solution for developers seeking to build powerful and scalable distributed SQL Server applications. This follow-up to the widely acclaimed The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL covers current subjects critical to successful SQL Server application development in depth, while leading developers to new heights in their overall programming skills.

Blending theoretical detail with practical application, this comprehensive reference begins by providing a foundational overview of SQL Server stored procedure programming. From there, the book moves on to best practices and design considerations before progressing to advanced topics -- providing the most complete coverage of SQL Server stored procedure programming available in one source. Topics such as extended procedures, OLE Automation, database design, and XML are covered in detail, while the book spotlights undocumented language features and brings the first application of design patterns to SQL. The preview of.NET and a groundbreaking way to add arrays to Transact-SQL make for the most thorough and engaging read published to date on SQL Server programming.

The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML includes sample projects with complete source code suitable for plugging into real world applications. Additional highlights include:

End-to-end coverage of stored procedure construction, best practices, and common conventions.
In-depth coverage of "procedural" objects, including triggers, views, and user-defined functions.
A comprehensive discussion of employing HTML and XML in SQL Server applications, as well as an introduction to Microsoft's new .NET platform.
Expert advice on debugging and profiling stored procedure code.
Step-by-step instructions on how to create advanced stored procedure objects including extended stored procedures and administrative procedures.
A behind-the-scenes look at undocumented Transact-SQL elements and coding tricks.
Software engineering essays addressing the work environment, evolutionary code development, and software testing.

An accompanying CD-ROM contains the book's source code along with several handy database administration tools. More than 600 code files, programming utilities, extended procedures, and SQL scripts demonstrate the real power of SQL Server programming and provide a tremendous value to the reader.

Both comprehensive and practical, The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML provides developers with a complete tool set for becoming expert stored procedure programmers and better software practitioners.

Booknews

Explores the nuances and quirks in SQL Server's stored procedure programming language, Transact-SQL. Written for advanced programmers, the book delves into the intricacies of database design, triggers, view objects, user-defined functions, extended storage procedures, and administrative storage procedures. The author also explains how to translate data stored in SQL Server databases into HTML and XML. The CD-ROM contains SQL scripts and programming utilities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	xv
	Preface	xvii
	Introduction	xxiii
Part I	The Basics	1
Chapter 1	Stored Procedure Primer	3
	What Is a Stored Procedure?	3
	Stored Procedure Advantages	4
	Creating a Stored Procedure	5
	Altering Stored Procedures	17
	Executing Stored Procedures	18
	Extended Stored Procedures	32
	Environmental Issues	34
	Parameters	37
	Flow Control Language	42
	Errors	44
	Nesting	46
	Recursion	46
	Summary	47
Chapter 2	Suggested Conventions	49
	Source Formatting	50
	Coding Conventions	64
	Summary	72
Chapter 3	Common Design Patterns	73
	The Law of Parsimony	74
	Idioms	75
	Design Patterns	84
	Summary	102
Chapter 4	Source Code Management	103
	The Benefits of Source Code Management	104
	The dt Procedures	105
	Best Practices	106
	Version Control from Query Analyzer	113
	Automating Script Generation with Version Control	115
	Summary	119
Chapter 5	Database Design	121
	General Approach	121
	Modeling Tools	122
	The Sample Project	123
	The Five Processes	123
	The Five Phases Examined	124
	Defining the Functions of the Application	127
	Modeling Business Processes	131
	Entity-Relationship Modeling	143
	Relational Data Modeling	162
	Summary	181
Chapter 6	Data Volumes	183
	Approaches to Generating Data	183
	Speed	197
	Summary	197
Part II	Objects	199
Chapter 7	Error Handling	201
	Error Reporting	201
	Handling Errors	203
	Summary	214
Chapter 8	Triggers	215
	Determining What Has Changed	216
	Managing Sequential Values	222
	Trigger Restrictions	224
	Instead of Triggers	226
	Triggers and Auditing	229
	Transactions	234
	Execution	234
	Calling Stored Procedures	235
	Nested Triggers	239
	Disabling Triggers	239
	Best Practices	240
	Summary	243
Chapter 9	Views	245
	Meta-data	245
	Restrictions	247
	Ansi SQL Schema Views	249
	Updatable Views	265
	The With Check Option Clause	266
	Derived Tables	267
	Parameterized Views	268
	Dynamic Views	269
	Partitioned Views	271
	Indexed Views	286
	Designing Modular Indexed Views	288
	Summary	289
Chapter 10	User-Defined Functions	291
	Scalar Functions	291
	Table-Value Functions	292
	Inline Functions	295
	Limitations	296
	Meta-data	300
	Creating Your Own System Functions	304
	UDF Cookbook	307
	Summary	335
Part III	HTML, XML, and .NET	337
Chapter 11	HTML	339
	Origins	339
	Producing HTML from Transact-SQL	340
	Producing HTML from sp_makewebtask	344
	Summary	351
Chapter 12	Introduction to XML	353
	Wooden Nickels	353
	XML: An Overview	356
	HTML: Simplicity Comes at a Price	357
	XML: A Brief History	358
	XML versus HTML: An Example	358
	Document Type Definitions	364
	XML Schemas	367
	Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)	370
	Document Object Model	378
	Further Reading	379
	Tools	379
	Summary	380
Chapter 13	XML and SQL Server: HTTP Queries	381
	Accessing SQL Server over HTTP	382
	URL Queries	385
	Template Queries	393
	Summary	400
Chapter 14	XML and SQL Server: Retrieving Data	401
	Select...For XML	401
	RAW Mode	402
	AUTO Mode	403
	Elements	404
	Explicit Mode	406
	Mapping Schemas	415
	Summary	420
Chapter 15	XML and SQL Server: OPENXML	421
	The Flags Parameter	425
	Edge Table Format	426
	Inserting Data with OPENXML()	427
	Web Release 1	431
	Limitations	448
	Summary	458
Chapter 16	.NET and the Coming Revolution	459
	.NET: The Future of Applications Development	465
	What Is .NET?	466
	On Microsoft Bashing	474
	Microsoft Bigotry?	475
	Summary	476
Part IV	Advanced Topics	477
Chapter 17	Performance Considerations	479
	Indexing	480
	Statistics	492
	Query Optimization	498
	Summary	511
Chapter 18	Debugging and Profiling	513
	Debugging	513
	Profiling	516
	Stress Testing	524
	Summary	528
Chapter 19	Automation	529
	A Brief Overview of COM	529
	SQL Server and COM Automation	536
	Summary	554
Chapter 20	Extended Stored Procedures	555
	Open Data Services	556
	A Simple Example	562
	A Better Example	567
	Making Extended Procedures Easier to Use	575
	Debugging Extended Procedures	576
	Isolating Extended Procedures	577
	xp_setpriority	578
	Summary	584
Chapter 21	Administrative Stored Procedures	585
	sp_readtextfile	585
	sp_diff	588
	sp_generate_script	590
	sp_start_trace	602
	sp_stop_trace	607
	sp_list_trace	609
	sp_proc_runner	612
	sp_create_backup_job	617
	sp_diffdb	622
	Summary	625
Chapter 22	Undocumented Transact-SQL	627
	What Defines Undocumented?	628
	Undocumented Procedures	628
	Creating Information_Schema Views	655
	Creating System Functions	656
	Undocumented DBCC Commands	658
	Undocumented Functions	667
	Undocumented Trace Flags	671
	Summary	672
Chapter 23	Arrays	675
	xp_array.dll	676
	Array System Functions	689
	The Piece de Resistance	692
	Multidimensional Arrays	694
	Summary	698
Part V	Essays on Software Engineering	701
Chapter 24	Creating a Workable Environment	703
	Get Rid of Distractions	705
	Close the Door	706
	Internal Distractions	706
	Form Over Function	707
	Silence Is Golden; Communication Divine	708
	Conclusion	708
	Epilogue	708
Chapter 25	Evolutionary Development	711
	Kaizen	713
	The Benefits of Small Changes	713
	Software	714
	Software Eutropy	715
	Refactoring	716
	Selling Management (or Yourself) on Refactoring	718
	When Not to Refactor	721
	Databases	722
	Can You Refactor Instead of Design?	724
	A House Built Upon the Sand	724
	Extreme Programming	725
	Conclusion	732
	Epilogue	732
Chapter 26	The Gestalt of Testing	733
	Where to Begin	735
	The Futility of Testing	737
	Types of Tests	738
	When to Test	739
	Testing Can Save Time	739
	Testing in the Extreme	740
	Other Types of Testing	741
	Conclusion	745
	Epilogue	745
	References	747
	Index	749

Managing Business Process Flows or The Definitive ANTLR Reference

Managing Business Process Flows: Principles of Operations Management

Author: Ravi Anupindi

This unique and comprehensive book presents a unifying paradigm for understanding operations, based in the belief that a large part of operations management is the design and management of business processes. The overall objective of the book is to demonstrate how managers can control process structure and process drivers to achieve desired business process performance. This framework is applied to understand which levels managers have to control: cycle time, capacity, inventory, and quality. Providing a conceptual and logically rigorous approach, Managing Business Process Flows discusses the subject in three steps: model and understand the process and its flows; study causal relationships between process structure and certain performance metrics; and formulate implications for managerial actions by filtering out managerial levers ("process drivers") and their impact on process performance. The book also identifies managerial levers, and establishes a connection between operational and financial measurements. An essential resource for all management professionals, especially Management Consultants specializing in operations and supply chains, Managers and VPs overseeing supply chains, and Plant Managers.

Booknews

A text/CD-ROM for MBA level operations management courses, presenting a process-flows approach to studying core concepts. This approach concentrates on modeling and understanding the process and its flows, studying causal relationships between process structure and performance metrics, and formulating implications for managerial actions by filtering out managerial levers. The CD-ROM contains a version of Process Model, a simulation software that provides a graphical method of testing and improving business processes, plus tutorials. Exercises are available on a Web site. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

I. PROCESS MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY.
1. Products, Processes, and Performance.
2. Operations Strategy and Management.
II. PROCESS FLOW MEASUREMENT.
3. Process Flow Measures.
4. Flow-Time Analysis.
5. Flow-Rate and Capacity Analysis.
6. Inventory Analysis.
III. PROCESS FLOW VARIABILITY.
7. Managing Flow Variability: Safety Inventory.
8. Managing Flow Variability: Safety Capacity.
9. Managing Flow Variability: Process Control and Capability.
IV. PROCESS INTEGRATION.
10. Process Synchronization and Improvement.
V. APPENDICES.
1. MBPF Checklist.
2. Background Material in Probability and Statistics.

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The Definitive ANTLR Reference: Building Domain-Specific Languages

Author: Terence Parr

ANTLR v3 is the most powerful, easy-to-use parser generator built to date, and represents the culmination of more than 15 years of research by Terence Parr. This book is the essential reference guide to using this completely rebuilt version of ANTLR, with its amazing new LL(*) parsing technology, tree construction facilities, StringTemplate code generation template engine, and sophisticated ANTLRWorks GUI development environment. Learn to use ANTLR directly from the author!
ANTLR is a "parser generator"-a program that generates code to translate a specified input language into a nice, tidy data structure. You might think that parser generators are only used to build compilers. But in fact, programmers usually use parser generators to build translators and interpreters for domain-specific languages such as proprietary data formats, common network protocols, text processing languages, and domain-specific programming languages.
Domain-specific languages are important to software development because they represent a more natural, high fidelity, robust, and maintainable means of encoding a problem than simply writing software in a general-purpose language. For example, NASA uses domain-specific command languages for space missions to improve reliability, reduce risk, reduce cost, and increase the speed of development. Even the first Apollo guidance control computer from the 1960s used a domain-specific language that supported vector computations.
This book is the definitive guide to using the completely rebuilt ANTLR v3 and describes all features in detail, including the amazing new LL(*) parsing technology, tree construction facilities, StringTemplate code generationtemplate engine, and sophisticated ANTLRWorks GUI development environment. You'll learn all about ANTLR grammar syntax, resolving grammar ambiguities, parser fault tolerance and error reporting, embedding actions to interpret or translate languages, building intermediate-form trees, extracting information from trees, generating source code, and how to use the ANTLR Java API.

CSS DHTML and Ajax or eBay

CSS, DHTML and Ajax: Visual QuickStart Guide

Author: Jason Cranford Teagu

The Web doesn't stand still, and neither does this guide: Completely updated to cover the new browsers, standards, and CSS, DHTML, and Ajax features that define the Web today, the one thing that hasn't changed in this edition is its task-based visual approach to the topic. In these pages, readers will find friendly, step-by-step instructions for using CSS, DHTML, and Ajax to add visually sophisticated, interactive elements to their Web sites. Using loads of tips and screen shots, veteran author Jason Cranford Teague covers a lot of ground--from basic and advanced dynamic techniques (for example, making objects appear and disappear) to creating effects for newer browsers, migrating from tables to CSS, and creating new DHTML scripts with embedded scroll areas, fixed menu bars, and more. Users new to CSS, DHTML, and Ajax will find this a quick, easy introduction to scripting, while more experienced programmers will be pleased to find practical, working examples throughout the book.

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eBay: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks

Author: Julia Wilkinson

You already know eBay basics. Now you'd like to go beyond with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is the book for you. Inside, you'll find clear, illustrated instructions for 120 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteed to make your eBay experience more productive.