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These books are handmade and may exhibit slight variations and flaws.
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Note for Dec. 2023: we are re-organizing our books. Contact Clint (address above) if you need to order a Unicon or Icon book.
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The principal definition of the Unicon language
is "Programming with Unicon". The book's source and
PDF are available on-line under the GNU Free Documentation
public license; hard copies are available here for
your convenience. Please send us your comments and any
corrections you find in the book. This 2nd
edition is around 500 pages. We update the book
occasionally as-needed in order to document new features.
You can order this book in
black & white or color, softbound. The paper size
will range from 5.5"x8.5" to 6.5"x8.5", depending on available
printer and paper supplies. The pricing is
according to the following schedule:
These books are handmade and may exhibit slight variations and flaws. | ||
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"Build Your Own Programming Language", second edition,
describes how to write the translators, compilers, and
runtime systems in Unicon (and Java), including a new
chapter on preprocessors and transpilers.
It is published by Packt
(2nd edition)
and also available from Amazon,
where it is on sale through April 9, 2024: | ||
| "The Icon Programming Language" is the primary definition for Icon. Since Unicon is a superset of Icon, everything in this book is useful and relevant to Unicon programmers. List: $35, Our Price: $20.00. Due to the generosity of Ralph and Madge Griswold, this book is available free in electronic format from Icon Project! | ||
| "Graphics Programming in Icon" is a 520 page book describing Icon's graphics facilities and many applications. All of these great graphics facilities developed for Icon are also part of Unicon. Note: Robert Parlett has written a richer, better-designed, more extensible graphical user interface builder and class library, and Naomi Martinez has written a set of 3D graphics facilities for those platforms on which OpenGL is available. These features are documented in "Programming with Unicon" and Unicon Technical Reports #6 and #9. "Graphics Programming in Icon" is still needed in order to use these improved tools. List: $45, Our Price: $15.00, or $4.00 for students, faculty, Unicon Citizens, IPL authors, or with purchase of another book. Due to the generosity of Ralph Griswold, Clint Jeffery, and Gregg Townsend, this book is available free in electronic form from Icon Project. | ||
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| Icon Programming for Humanists, 2nd Edition, by Alan D. Corre is a 7x9.25" paperback, 125pp. We are pleased to publish this out-of-print classic, with many updates and a new chapter on processing of markup languages ($20 postpaid in USA; first printing, 9/2010). | ||
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| "Program Monitoring and Visualization", published by Springer! This book presents software visualization at a level suitable for a senior-level undergraduate or graduate course, or for the interested technical professional. The approach is to give a survey of the field, and then present a specific research framework designed to reduce the effort required to write visualization tools. A wide range of simple program control flow and data structure visualizations is then presented as examples of how to obtain information about program behavior, and how to present it graphically. Source code fragments and screen images illustrate each example. The book is the primary reference on Icon and Unicon language extensions for high-level monitoring and visualization. These facilities are further enhanced in Unicon, which provides them as a standard part of the language. Errata List: $60, Our Price: 55.00 |
 | "The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language" is a tour de force among programming language books, describing Icon's virtual machine implementation in detail, especially its control- and data structures. This Princeton University Press book is out of print. We have an hardbound used copy in excellent condition available. Due to the generosity of Ralph and Madge Griswold, this book is also available free in electronic format from Icon Project! Our Price is $55.00 |
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Major Expenditures
Funds raised by Jeffery Books play a role in promoting Icon, Unicon and related programming languages and systems. Support from users will be what determines the long-term health and rate of development for this language family. We will list major expenditures here, to record some of what your user community support has accomplished.
| Year | Amount | Description |
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| 2002 | $900 | Icon books acquisition A quantity of Icon books was retrieved from California in order to ensure that these titles would remain available for the indefinite future. |
| 2004-5 | $409 | unicon.org acquisition The Internet domain unicon.org was acquired for use by the project. In 2005 it was renewed for 8 years. |
| 2004 | $350 | unicon.org - Our First Fellow Our first student award is a "down payment" on a source level debugger for Unicon. |
| 2007 | $275 | ISBNs we buy a few ISBN's in order to put some works in print. |
| 2012 | $130 | unicon.org domain renewed until 2022. |
| 2022 | $125 | unicon.org domain renewed until 2027. |
This page last updated: 18 May, 2022.