The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer

262 Pages·1957·17.193 MB·English

by  Maurice V. Wilkes, David J. Wheeler, Stanley Gill

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PROGRAMS FOR AN ELEI
TBOIIC DIGITAL COMPUTER
Second Edition
By M. V. Wilkes, D. J. Wheeler,
and
Stanley Gill
Thoroughly revised and expanded to include ma-
chines other than the Electronic Delay Storage
Automatic Computer (EDSAC), thisSecond Edition
offers a general introduction to programmingfor any
computer of the stored-program type. It is designed
for thoseusing electronic digital computers, for those
putting new machines into operation, and for those
wishing to assess the possible application of such
computers to their own problems.
Programming cannot be taughtin the abstract nor
can it be learned without practice, and any book on
programming must use the order code of some par-
ticular machine, real or hypothetical. Fortunately,
EDSAC
the order code of the lends itself well to the
purposes of a book on programming, being fairly
straightforward and relatively easily memorized.
Moreover, the EDSAC is a single-address binary
machine, andarecentsurveyshowsthat, ofthetypes
of machines currently in use, about 50% use single-
address order codes and about 60% work in the
binary scale. Another advantage of using the order
code of an established machine is that it is possible
to draw on experience of programming and of the
teaching of programming.
For these reasons, the authors chose to use the
EDSAC as their model in writing the First Edition.
Since the methods described for the EDSAC may
readily be translated into order codes for other
machines, the authors have retained in this revised
edition the same general plan as that of the First
Edition. However, the growing use of other types
of machines has led them to expand the book to in-
clude other computers, in the hope of making the
book useful to those working with any stored-
program computer.
In the Addison-Wesley
Mathematics Series
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Consulting Editor
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