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"Programming is usually taught by examples."
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"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming."
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"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."
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"Programming is usually taught by examples."
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"The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central."
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"I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining."
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"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."
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"After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field."
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"The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed."
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"Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy."
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"Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated."
Design
"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
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"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs."
Design
"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."
World
"Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples."
Experience
"Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence."
Management
"The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision."
Decision
"Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed."
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