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How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing

Matthew Flatt; Matthias Felleisen; Robert Bruce Findler; Shriram Krishnamurthi

Synopsis:
The book exposes readers to two fundamentally new ideas. First, it presents 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, based on the analysis; how to finish the program; and how to test. Each step produces a well-defined intermediate product. Second, the book comes with a novel programming environment, the first one explicitly designed for beginners. The environment grows with the readers as they master the material in the book until it supports a full-fledged language for the whole spectrum of programming tasks.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2009