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Re: The Practice of Programming



On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 09:57, Vidar Bakke wrote:
> Hi
> After nearly 3 years after I bought the book
> "The Practice of Programming" by Kernighan and
> Pike  I finally managed to read it, but I still have a long
> way to go before I'm done with the exercises.
> Chapter 5 Debugging and chapter 6 Testing
> are a required read for every programmer.
> 
> To have a clue about how to program  and nodding
> along as you read is one thing. To actually learn
> how to crank out  reliable  code is hard work and
> time consuming.  A book like tPoP can improve your
> efficiency and quality of work if you do the  exercises
> and apply the knowledge to your own work.
> 
> I strongly recommend The Practice of Programming,
> but the true value of the book is not revealed before
> the exercises  are done. It's easy to skip stuff because
> it sound so easy and obvious. Do a reality check with
> the exercises.

Hello,

Just for curious, is this some kind of advice? Is it a fancy spam from a
bookstore? :-P

I mean, I got interested on your position of sending your nice review to
debian-edu.

Regards,

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David Moreno Garza <damog@damog.net>
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