Data Communications Using Object-Oriented Design and C++/Book and Disk (Mcgraw-Hill Series on Computer Communications) [Hardcover]

Anil Ananthaswamy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1995 | Series: Mcgraw-Hill Series on Computer Communications

This text is designed for communications professionals who want a deeper understanding of data communications by learning to apply object-oriented design to data communications software development. Concentrating on a specific communications protocol, the book highlights the power of OOP design techniques. The book assumes little background in data communications or object-oriented programming.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx); Har/Dis edition (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0079118577
• ISBN-13: 978-0079118578
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,649,704 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Anil Ananthaswamy is a consulting editor for New Scientist in London, where he has also worked as deputy news editor. He is also a contributor to National Geographic News. He has a Master of Science degree from the University of Washington, Seattle and worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley before training as a journalist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, especially in the absence of competition, September 29, 2000

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This review is from: Data Communications Using Object-Oriented Design and C++/Book and Disk (Mcgraw-Hill Series on Computer Communications) (Hardcover)

Data Communications Using Object-Oriented Design and C++

by Anil Ananthaswamy

Book and Disk, January 1995

Mcgraw-Hill Series on Computer Communications

ISBN: 0079118577

To put it short, the book is worthy. Not perfect--terminology is strange at times (the author calls event-driven programming "asynchronous" which is, first, a strange choice, and, second, confusing--especially in a book on communications, where the term "asynchronous" is an accepted term used to signify something very different; the author calls states "state machines" which, the two being distinct entities, is, again, confusing a bit.) The editor should have caught these few cases of failed diction. Some of the proposed designs are questionable at times (new'ing state objects all the time? Not a good idea...) BUT: these are lateral things. What matters most is that this book is unique in what it covers and it does a pretty adequate job showing (practically, in code) how this kind of programs are written. I know of no other book of the same kind, and therefore highly recommend it to any programmer dabbling into communications area.