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drothlis on Sept 7, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dijkstra on the cruelty of really teaching computi...

In a similar vein is Elements of Programming by Alexander Stepanov (designer of the C++ STL) and Paul McJones: http://www.elementsofprogramming.com/book.html

limist on Sept 7, 2010 [–]

@jhck, drothlis: Thank you very much to both of you, those suggestions are exactly what was asked for. I'd upvote you more if I could. :)

Both the Gries book and Stepanov's book have really impressive reviews on Amazon, am looking forward to diving into them.

http://www.amazon.com/Science-Programming-Monographs-Compute...

http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Alexander-Stepano...

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