Sale!

A Discipline of Programming

Amazon.com Price:  $78.96 (as of 14/04/2019 21:01 PST- Details)

Categories: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Description

Clean wraps, corners square, lay flat. No creases to the spine, or hinge. Small frayed spot at the top of the spine. No previous owner’s name, no other marks in text. Well kept copy.
Writer Edsger W. Dijkstra introduces A Discipline of Programming with the remark, “My original idea was once to publish various beautiful algorithms in this kind of 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 are we doing when we program?” These questions lead him to an interesting digression on the semantics of programming languages, which, in turn, leads to essays on programming language constructs, scoping of variables, and array references. Dijkstra then delivers, as promised, a collection of beautiful algorithms.

These algorithms are far ranging, covering mathematical computations, more than a few kinds of sorting problems, pattern matching, convex hulls, and more. Because this is an old book, the algorithms presented are from time to time no longer the best available. Alternatively, the value in reading A Discipline of Programming is to soak up and remember the way that Dijkstra thought about these problems, which, in some ways, is more valuable than a thousand algorithms.

Related products

Home » Shop » Books » Specialty Boutique » New, Used and Rental Textbooks » Computer Science » Information Theory » A Discipline of Programming

Recent Products