| Programming is a highly skilled activity, and good programmers are few and far between. In few other professions is the 90-10 rule (90% of the effort goes into the last 10% of the work) so vitally important. Many programmers are able to write programs that 'work' in most circumstances; few programmers know the basic principles of program specification, let alone how to construct programs that guarantee to meet their specifications in all circumstances.
It is no wonder. Many texts have been written that explain how to encode computational processes in some specific programming language (C, Java, Visual Basic, or whatever), but few tackle the much harder problem of presenting the problemsolving skills that are needed to formulate programming problems precisely and concisely, and to convert those formulations into elegant implementations.
This book is about programming per se. It is about the most elementary principles of program construction—problem decomposition, invariant properties, and guarantees of progress. It is intended to appeal to both novice programmers, who wish to start on the right track, and to experienced programmers who wish to properly master their craft. |
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