Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography There are a wide variety of texts available for those who are interested in learning more about assembly language or other topics this text covers. ... Microprocessor Programming for Computer Hobbyists Neill Graham TAB books ISBN 0-8306-6952-3 1977 This book provides a gentle introduction to data structures for computer hobbyists. ... IBM Assembler Language and Programming Peter Able Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-448143-7 1987 A college text book on assembly language. ...

Next: Passing Parameters in Up: Monitor and Command Previous: Execution of Commands . The MIDAS command language ( MCL ) consists of all the commands which you enter interactively, and an additional set of commands to provide the necessary tools to write MIDAS ``programs'', called MIDAS procedures . ... The following Command Language commands provide the necessary programming constructs like looping and conditional branching for MIDAS procedures, they cannot be used interactively: . ...

The aim of this section of the course is to enable you to use simple computer programs to solve a variety of common astronomical tasks. ... I have (somewhat arbitrarily) decided to use Python for this course, because it seems to be gaining popularity fast for astronomical data handling, and because some of you will have encountered it at the ATNF course. ... We've put Python (plus all relevant libraries) on the Stromlo Linux computers moron and maggot. ... Now log in to moron (or maggot). ...

... Preprocessor Compiler Control . ... This directive includes a file into code. ... include <file> or #include ``file'' . ... As another example if running program on MSDOS machine we want to include file msdos.h otherwise a default.h file. ... This is most often used with programs that translate other languages to C. For example, error messages produced by the C compiler can reference the file name and line numbers of the original source files instead of the intermediate C (translated) source files. ...