A discipline of programming by Edsger W. Dijkstra

A discipline of programming Edsger W. Dijkstra ebook
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.
Format: djvu
Page: 232
ISBN: 013215871X, 9780132158718

It's also a discipline which, like martial arts, changes fundamentally the way you see the universe, once you get far enough in and become advanced enough. I think there are a large number of people in the JAP category who are there because programming is considered a discipline unto itself, with its own career path. Dijkstra introduces a function called wp for "weakest precondition". They are reasonably easy to reproduce and can be debugged using standard methods (code coverage). Programming can mean a number of. Dijkstra made a similar argument on page 56 of his book "A Discipline of Programming", together with another argument in support of the != form. For further details, see Dijkstra's book "A Discipline of Programming". People often use this as an example to show that Dijkstra was excessively doctrinaire, and out of touch with the reality of programming, but usually it's because they don't know what his argument was. Still, if the only problems were deterministic access violations, I could live with them (I'm a very disciplined programmer). I wrote a response, explaining where Dijkstra was coming from, and I am very happy with how it . The discipline requires considerable programming and computing knowledge, as well as visualization, so that the insights extracted from the data can be presented in a way that reinforces human cognition. They rarely look outside the code directly affecting their work. Although programming is a discipline with a very large canon of existing work to draw from, the only code most programmers read is the code they maintain. Web Design is sometimes described as a purely programming discipline with graphics tacked on the front, but this is not correct because the web is a visual medium. Programming is unfortunately such a general term these days that I often find myself cringing at its use in broader contexts. Does it really matter what the code looks like? Stay the course—be disciplined. As I recently noted, I'm making some shifts in my work so that I can focus more on some of these questions surrounding how do we create learning environments for non-programmers to learn programming. It matters because ultimately writing code is about discipline and details. The short answer is an emphatic 'yes'.