Status Updates From Introduction to Computation...

In a span of just fifteen pages we have Sherlock Holmes, Rita Mae, JFK, Knight Capital's $440 million bug, glass-box testing, and treating debugging the same as designing an experiment. Oh and of course Grace Hopper. One memorable quote: "In industry, the testing process is often highly automated. Testers do not sit at terminals typing inputs and checking outputs."

"Abstraction is all about forgetting." Never really thought of it that way.

This looks to be a great intro-to-programming book. The concepts are introduced at a rapid-fire pace and in a refreshing order that enables quicker practical implementation. Not learning about functions and scoping until after implementing some numerical algorithms is definitely the way to go. And a big plus is using t-variables in all the algorithms; develops a good sense of runtime complexities.