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# C:/Musimathics_local/Musimat/MusimatTutorial/B0101.cpp

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    00001 #include "MusimatTutorial.h"
    00002 MusimatTutorialSection(B0101) {
    00003 Print("*** B.1.1 Basic Elements ***");
    00004 /*****************************************************************************
    00005
    00006 B.1.1 Basic Elements
    00007
    00008 Virtually all programming languages, including Musimat, share the following characteristics:
    00009
    00010 o Flow control — Specifying the order in which the steps are to be taken.
    00011
    00012 o Data types — Naming the kinds of objects to be operated on and describing their behaviors. Types
    00013 of numbers, such as integer and real are common basic data types.
    00014
    00015 o Variables — Names of places to hold data of various types.
    00016
    00017 o Operators — A set of actions that can be performed on data. Operations like “add”, “assign”, and
    00018 “select” perform well-defined operations on the data.
    00019
    00020 o Conditional evaluation — Making decisions based on circumstances and taking appropriate
    00021 action.
    00022
    00023 o Iteration — If an algorithm is to be applied repeatedly to data, for instance, the way Euclid’s
    00024 method does, then we need a way to express this.
    00025
    00026 o Recursion — If a future output depends upon a current or previous output as well as possibly the
    00027 current inputs, we say that the relationship is recursive.
    00028
    00029 o Data structures — It is sometimes necessary to group data into collections, such as sets, lists,
    00030 arrays, and matrices. The types of these data structures can be homogeneous (all alike) or heter-
    00031 ogeneous (a mixed bag).
    00032
    00033 o Named methods — When we’ve developed a set of instructions that does something useful, we
    00034 want to be able to give it a name, like “Euclid’s method” or “Guido’s method.” Since programming
    00035 languages developed out of the mathematics of functions, we use functional notation to represent
    00036 the operation of methods.
    00037
    00038 *****************************************************************************/
    00039 }}
    00040
    00042 /* $Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 2006/09/09 06:23:07 $ $Author: dgl $ $Name:  $ $Id: _b0101_8cpp-source.html,v 1.2 2006/09/09 06:23:07 dgl Exp $ */
    00043 // The Musimat Tutorial © 2006 Gareth Loy
    00044 // Derived from Chapter 9 and Appendix B of "Musimathics Vol. 1" © 2006 Gareth Loy
    00045 // and published exclusively by The MIT Press.
    00046 // This program is released WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
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    00051 // Gareth Loy's Musimathics website:    http://www.musimathics.com/
    00052 // The Musimat website:                 http://www.musimat.com/
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    00054 // available here:                      http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
    00055