Chapter 1 - Full TOC

Sections

1. BASIC CONCEPTS 1.1 INTRODUCTION 1.2 WHAT IS PROGRAMMING? 1.3 FLOWCHARTING 1.4 INFORMATION REPRESENTATION 1.4.1 INTERNAL REPRESENTATION OF INFORMATION 1.4.1.1 Program representation 1.4.1.2 Representing Numeric Data 1.4.1.2.1 Decimal to Binary 1.4.1.2.2 Operating on Binary Data 1.4.1.2.3 Signed Binary 1.4.1.2.4 One's Complement 1.4.1.2.5 Two's Complement Representation 1.4.1.2.6 The Carry C

1.4.1.2.7 Overflow V 1.4.1.2.8 The carry and the Overflow 1.4.1.2.9 Examples 1.4.1.2.10 Fixed Format Representation 1.4.1.2.11 The Magnitude Problem 1.4.1.2.12 BCD Representation 1.4.1.2.13 Floating-Point Representation 1.4.1.3 Representing Alphanumeric Data 1.4.2 EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION OF INFORMATION 1.4.2.1 Binary 1.4.2.2 Octal and Hexadecimal 1.4.2.3 Symbolic Representation 1.4.2.4 Summary of External Representation 1.4.3 ADDITIONAL EXERCISES

Exercises

Exercise 1.1, Exercise 1.2, Exercise 1.3, Exercise 1.4, Exercise 1.5, Exercise 1.6, Exercise 1.7, Exercise 1.8, Exercise 1.9, Exercise 1.10, Exercise 1.11, Exercise 1.12, Exercise 1.13, Exercise 1.14, Exercise 1.15, Exercise 1.16, Exercise 1.17, Exercise 1.18, Exercise 1.19, Exercise 1.20, Exercise 1.21, Exercise 1.22, Exercise 1.23, Exercise 1.24, Exercise 1.25, Exercise 1.26, Exercise 1.27, Exercise 1.28, Exercise 1.29, Exercise 1.30, Exercise 1.31, Exercise 1.32

List of Figures

Fig. 1.1: A Flowchart for Keeping Room Temperature Constant Fig. 1.2: Decimal-Binary Table Fig. 1.3: 2's Complement Table Fig. 1.4: BCD Table

Fig. 1.5: Typical Floating-Point Representation Fig. 1.6: ASCII Conversion Table Fig. 1.7: Octal Symbols Fig. 1.8: Hexadecimal Codes