SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL JOVIAL MANUAL CHAPTERS 1, 2, 3, & 4.

摘要

Presents a manual for JOVIAL programming language training which does not require any previous programming knowledge on the part of the student. This arrangement presents the advantages of sensitivity to individual learning abilities, and independence from a formal class. Each chapter contains review exercises followed by the answers to the questions presented in the exercises. Chapter I is an introduction to JOVIAL, Chapter II describes items, the assignment statement and the four basic arithmetic operations of JOVIAL. Chapter III presents JOVIAL coding formats and a representation of Hollerith information on punched cards. Chapter IV discusses the "If" and the "Goto" statements, statement labels and compound statements, (author).