Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "It offers one producer to one consumer (OneToOneRingBuffer) or many producers to one consumer (ManyToOneRingBuffer) solutions."

A block of code is set as follows:

/* Put header files here or function declarations like below */

 extern int add_1(int n);

 extern int add(int n, int m);

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

>>> import math
 >>> math.add_1(5)
 6

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: "The Load Data component (annotation 1) will help get historical data."

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