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Transparency Masters A collection of 400 figures and program code in the text.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the many individuals who have helped us in the preparation of this text. We are indebted to the members of the faculties of the Computer Science Departments at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
We extend special thanks to Jeff Brumfield for developing the syntax template metalanguage and allowing us to use it in the text.
For their many helpful suggestions, we thank the lecturers, teaching assistants, consultants, and student proctors who run the courses for which this book was written, and the students themselves.
We are grateful to the following people who took the time to review our manuscript: James Abele, Arkansas Tech University; Don Bailes, East Tennessee State University; Lee A. Becker, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Eric Braude, Boston University; Ken W. Collier, Northern Arizona University; Ed C. Epp, University of Portland; Bill Grosky, Wayne State University; R. James Guild, California Lutheran University; Bob Hale, Deakin University, Australia; Robert Kline, West Chester University; Mark D. LeBlanc, Wheaton College; Tony L. McRae, Collin County Community College; M. Dee Medley, Augusta College; James C. Miller, Bradley University; Ned Okie, Radford University; David Ranum, Luther College; Larry F. Sells, Oklahoma City University; David B. Teague, Western Carolina University; F. Layne Wallace, University of North Florida; William L. Ziegler, State University of New York, Binghamton.
We also thank the many people at D. C. Heath who contributed so much, especially Karen Jolie, Heather Monahan, Andrea Cava, Randall Adams, Dave Serbun, Walter Cunningham, and Andra Stein.
Anyone who has ever written a bookor is related to someone who hascan appreciate the amount of time involved in such a project. To our familiesall the Dale clan and the extended Dale family (too numerous to name); to Lisa, Charlie, and Abby; to Anne, Brady, and Karithanks for your tremendous support and indulgence.
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