Larry Nyhoff is a professor emeritus at Calvin College, where he continues to teach part-time. He retired in 2003 after 41 years of teaching mathematics and computing. Upon retirement, Professor Nyhoff was awarded the College's highest faculty honor, the Presidential Award for Exemplary Teaching. He earned a PhD from Michigan State University, has co-authored more than 25 textbooks on programming in Fortran, Turbo Pascal, Modula-2, Java, and C++, and has authored several textbooks on introductory data structures.
The book is lavishly illustrated with examples and exercises, which would make it both an ideal course companion and a book for private study. The author s abilities to explain briefly the history of computing and to write an engaging text are to be commended. If you buy only one text on programming in C++, then this should be the one for you. Carl M. O Brien, International Statistical Review (2013), 81 The book is lavishly illustrated with examples and exercises, which would make it both an ideal course companion and a book for private study. The author s abilities to explain briefly the history of computing and to write an engaging text are to be commended. If you buy only one text on programming in C++, then this should be the one for you. Carl M. O Brien, International Statistical Review (2013), 81