led courses on major programming languages and platforms, such as Java, Advanced Java, C, C , C#, Visual Basic, Visual C , XML, Perl, Python, object technology and Internet and World Wide Web programming. The founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., are Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel. The company’s clients include many of the world’s largest companies, government agencies, branches of the military, and academic institutions. They are the authors of many computer science textbooks in the field of programming languages. Their English-language training products have been used in more than 5000 universities and corporations in almost every country of the world, and have been translated into Russian, Polish, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Elementary Chinese, Advanced Chinese, Japanese and Korean with many other translations in progress. Their How to Program Series publications in Java, C, C and the Internet & World Wide Web--each published by Prentice Hall (the world's largest computer science publisher)--are the best-selling college programming language textbooks in their respective fields. Through its 30-year publishing partnership with Prentice Hall, Deitel & Associates, Inc. publishes leading-edge programming textbooks, professional books, interactive multimedia Cyber Classrooms and e-content for the popular course management systems WebCT, Blackboard and Pearson’s CourseCompass. Through university teaching, corporate training, their best-selling Prentice Hall textbooks and interactive multimedia CD-ROM Cyber Classrooms, and through satellite broadcasts, they and their professional staff and contractors have taught over 1,000,000 people how to program in almost every major programming language Their instructors are highly credentialed professionals who consistently receive outstanding teaching evaluations. They use instructors on their full-time professional staff as well as distinguished industry consultants. Their business is based on integrity, quality, value, service, flexibility, customization and follow-through. They are constantly improving their existing educational products and developing new ones in response to the unique needs of their clients and rapidly evolving industry trends. They would be pleased to schedule courses on short notice.