[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| outdated.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)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32459443 - Aug 2022 (11
| 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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