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| Authored by: emmenjay on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 12:13 PM EDT |
Hi Bill
> You, as an instructor of CompSci, would have
> them right to hand:
Sadly, I no longer do. I *have* taught CompSci, but no longer do. It has been
a number of years since I last did. I used to have a fair book case, but
probably not extensive. Many of the books I used belonged to my employers.
Further, in the last couple of years I have only worked irregularly (because of
illness) and have had to move to a very small flat. Many of the books did not
survive the move.
> -- Dahl, Dijkstra, and Hoare, Structured
> Programming, 1972.
> -- Dijkstra, A Discipline of Programing, 1976.
> -- Wirth, Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, 1976.
I have seen the books that you mention, in the past. I looked at a copy of
Wirth online earlier today and at first glance I did not see much to contradict
my position, but maybe I wasn't looking hard enough. He has a lot about data
structures, but his "algorithms" part is largely confined to sorting
algorithms. I will check again.
I'll see if I can locate extracts of the others online.
Please understand, I do not claim that maths is unimportant in CompSci. Many
algorithms use maths and some are described using mathematical notation. But I
don't think that is the same as "software == maths"
Regards
Michael J Smith
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