Tag: Edsger W. 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

Edsger W. Dijkstra – A short introduction to the art of programming  Link: E.W.Dijkstra Archive: A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming (EWD 316) 1. Preface  For those readers who identify the programmer’s competence with a thorough knowledge of the idiosyncrasies of one or more of the baroque tools into which modern programming languages