How to Design Programs, second edition: An Introduction to Programming and Computing (The MIT Press)
How to Design Programs, second edition: An Introduction to Programming and Computing (The MIT Press) READ MORE How to Design Programs, second edition: An Introduction to Programming and Computing (The MIT Press) A completely revised edition, offering new design recipes for interactive programs and support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming.This introduction to programming places computer science at the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike other introductory books, it focuses on the program design process, presenting program design guidelines that show the reader how to analyze a problem statement, how to formulate concise goals, how to make up examples, how to develop an outline of the solution, how to finish the program, and how to test it. Because learning to design programs is about the study of principles and the acquisition of transferable skills, the text does not use an off-the-shelf industrial language but p...