Data Communications Using Object-Oriented Design and C++/Book and Disk

by Anil Ananthaswamy

A guide to data communications software design using object-oriented techniques in C++. It shows how to address real-world programming issues largely ignored by textbooks, highlighting the power of object-oriented programming through the implementation of an end-to-end protocol. The ISO 7776 Data Link layer is developed in its entirety. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

336 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1995

About the author

ANIL ANANTHASWAMY is former deputy news editor and current consultant for New Scientist. He is a guest editor at UC Santa Cruz’s renowned science-writing program and teaches an annual science journalism workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India. He is a freelance feature editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science’s “Front Matter” and has written for National Geographic News, Discover, and Matter. He has been a columnist for PBS NOVA’s The Nature of Reality blog. He won the UK Institute of Physics’ Physics Journalism award and the British Association of Science Writers’ award for Best Investigative Journalism. His first book, The Edge of Physics, was voted book of the year in 2010 by Physics World. He lives in Bangalore, India, and Berkeley, California.