[HN Gopher] Elements of Programming (2009)
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       Elements of Programming (2009)
        
       Author : kykeonaut
       Score  : 64 points
       Date   : 2025-02-11 18:04 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | mempko wrote:
       | If you are passionate about programming and and computer science,
       | this is the book to read. It's like Euclid's elements, but for
       | programming.
        
       | iLemming wrote:
       | The year in the HN title looks wrong, in the PDF it says 2019,
       | please fix it, otherwise people ignore the book thinking it's too
       | outdated.
       | 
       | Oh wait. I stand corrected - I missed that it said "Copyright
       | 2009", "First printing 2019", not sure why it took so long to get
       | it printed.
        
         | icermann wrote:
         | It's explained on the web page
         | 
         | "After ten years in print, our publisher decided against
         | further printings and has reverted the rights to us. We have
         | published Elements of Programming in two forms: a free PDF and
         | a no-markup paperback."
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related. Others?
       | 
       |  _Elements of Programming (2019)_ -
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       | comments)
       | 
       |  _Elements of Programming_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20437347 - July 2019 (24
       | comments)
       | 
       |  _Alex Stepanov (STL) just published a book on math foundations
       | of programming_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665987 -
       | June 2009 (1 comment)
        
       | layer8 wrote:
       | Historically, this is based on what is described here:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanov#Standard_Te...
        
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