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A Discipline of Programming
Author Edsger W. Dijkstra introduces A Discipline of Programming with the statement, "My original idea was to publish a number of beautiful algorithms in such a way that the reader could appreciate their beauty." In this classic work, Dijkstra achieves this goal and accomplishes a great deal more.
He begins by considering the questions, "What is an algorithm?" and "What ar
...morePaperback, 217 pages
Published
March 19th 1976
by Prentice Hall
(first published March 1976)
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This short book is one of the finest ever written on the subject of programming. Dijkstra's examples are deceptively simple; his solutions are beautiful and elegant. Every programmer should read this: Dijkstra was our progenitor: everything he wrote was relevant and always will be. Dijkstra once stated, "If a programmer can look at his code and say, 'Dijkstra would not have liked that,' then that is immortality enough for me." This book shows us why.
this is one of those books that i intended to read for years, and gave up each time after read through a dozen page or so. this time, i pushed through pattern matching chapter now.beautifully written, lots of insights and wonderful.illustration of problem solving. the main theme is closely related to udi manber algorithn book. It is hard read, enjoy seeing the design and problem solving process.
This book delivers what I had expected to get from Stepanov and McJones's Elements of Programming (Elements of Programming is great; it's just a different book than I thought it would be).
Dijkstra is a programming legend. Aside from "Goto statement considered harmful" he made a mark in just about every field of programming: from Dijkstra's shortest paths to Dijkstra's banker's algorithm to semaphores to coloring garbage collectors to several others. The opportunity to learn from him really shoul...more
Dijkstra is a programming legend. Aside from "Goto statement considered harmful" he made a mark in just about every field of programming: from Dijkstra's shortest paths to Dijkstra's banker's algorithm to semaphores to coloring garbage collectors to several others. The opportunity to learn from him really shoul...more
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it's difficult for me to go on..
stuck on 86page :-(
stuck on 86page :-(
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really fantastic book
One of the most important books of Computer Science and one of the toughest books I've ever read.
You can actually feel Dijkstra's voice tone while reading it.
It takes a point of view about the formalization of programs and reasoning about them.
One of those books that you have to reread to fully appreciate and understand (at least for me).
You can actually feel Dijkstra's voice tone while reading it.
It takes a point of view about the formalization of programs and reasoning about them.
One of those books that you have to reread to fully appreciate and understand (at least for me).
The most important book any young programmer could find. It changed my life.
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