[OT] partialy I was wondering what suggestions for programing

[Charles, Joshua Micah (UMKC-Student)]

I got Knuths AOP for christmas, and it's been pretty awesome.  I have to
admit, though, that some of the more advanced topics are beyond my.  For
example, the stuff on Random Number Generators, I don't know enough
statistics.  Some other portions I've read so far are like that too.

Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at kclug.org [mailto:owner-kclug at kclug.org] On Behalf Of
Bryan Richard
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:17 AM
To: DCT Jared
Cc: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: [OT] partialy I was wondering what suggestions for
programing

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:58:08AM -0600, DCT Jared wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:01:25 -0800, Kendrick-LUG wrote:
> >?I never saw a specific book on
> >fundamentals of programingl.
> 
> I can't imagine one exists. How can you teach fundamentals
> of programming without examples? And if you're going to use
> examples, why give examples from a dozen languages?

You don't. You use English as the high-level language. 

Donald Knuth's THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING uses this technique
whenever possible.  http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/

Still...

> Therefore,
> 
> Fundamentals of programming books will be like you described,
> fundamentals of C, or fundamentals of Assembler. Pick one
> and go.

I agree with this logic. You learn programming by programming not my
reading.

> All languages are basically alike; they implement the same ideas
> with variously flavored methods. 

Until you encounter LISP and your head melts. ;-)

- Bryan