A discipline of programming by Edsger W. Dijkstra

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

However, accessibility is only part of the story. We might talk about reaching as wide an audience as possible, or about laws requiring accessible websites. - Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Norvig. That's not accidental — I think that, even in as fast-moving a discipline as programming, it takes time for a book to establish itself as a classic; and the really good books are timeless. Many complex models attempt to deal with the deadlock problem—with backoff-and-retry protocols, for example—but they require strict discipline by programmers, and some introduce their own problems (e.g., livelock). If DH were an accepted discipline, the recognition of programming activities or contributions to databases as scholarly accomplishment would not be such a big deal. Having the basis for ingenuity is a great thing for kids, and I can't really ever see that going away, but I really think that programming as a discipline is becoming more a means to an end rather than an end in and of itself. Programming is probably the greatest, and most criminally untapped teaching tool we have developed in the last century. Proposals will be considered in any arts discipline, including but not limited to: the performing arts, the visual arts, multimedia arts programs, and conferences or symposia that incorporate arts elements. Didn't Dijkstra suggest in "A Discipline of Programming" that each program should come with a mathematical proof of it's correctness so that it was by definition bug free? So I've been doing TDD with one project, and LP with another project, and I've come to a rather amusing conclusion: Test Driven Development and Literate Programming are the same discipline. Immutable Object Programming (IOP) enforces a discipline on the programmer, much like structured programming enforced a discipline on programmers. 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. They rarely look outside the code directly affecting their work. - Smalltalk 80: The Language and Its Implementation by Adele Goldberg. The reaction of these teams suggested their levels of discipline with various practices. Today, I presented a position paper entitled “Programming Can Deepen Understanding Across Disciplines”. - A Discipline of Programming by Dijkstra. According to Dijkstra's experience, described in chapter "The problem of next permutation" of "A Discipline of Programming", the separation of code and data is essential for clarity. Many of us, however, formerly self-studied the discipline of programming and filled in the gaps in our knowledge with most, if not all, of the subjects taught in the University programs.