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Month: January 2024

On Undertanding Programs – Dijkstra

In my life I have seen many programming courses that were essentially like the usual kind of driving lessons, in which one is taught how to handle a car instead of how to use a car to reach one’s destination. My point is that a program is never a goal in itself; the purpose of
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Testing, Computers and society in Notes On Structured Programming

The computer scientist Dijkstra, has some strong opinions about tesing, the art of programming and the impact of the computer in the society. Let’s take a second to read the opinion he wrote in Notes on Structured programming My conclusion is that it is becoming most urgent to stop to consider programming primarily as the
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