RE: Greetings, and a question (or two)...

[David Castro <thetechwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Lief Erickson said:

> The text book for my programming logic course is really well written. The
> book is non-language specific and that the concepts that Jason mentions
> (loops, conditionals, methods, classes, etc.) were specifically covered. The
> book we use in class is _A Guide to Programming Logic and Design_ by Joyce
> Farrell.

Another really, really good book that is language-independent is Code Complete,
by Steve McConnell
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556154844/o/qid=985127659/sr=2-1/107-5192372-6438103).
I'd love to see it become mandatory reading for all new programmers! It'd make
their own job (and ours) so much easier if everyone involved in the programming
process both knew and practiced the principles.

The book was written before the popularity of Object Oriented Programming, but
that is probably its only fault. The rest of the stuff in there is timeless....

-David Castro
 email -at- davidcastro -dot- com
 http://www.davidcastro.com


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