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How to Design Programs

An Introduction to Programming and Computing - Second Edition

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792 Seiten
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This completely revised edition offers new design recipes for interactive programs and supports images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and distributed programming. It places computer science at the heart of a liberal arts education, focusing on the program design process. The text presents guidelines for analyzing problem statements, formulating concise goals, creating examples, outlining solutions, completing programs, and testing them. Emphasizing principles and transferable skills, it avoids using an off-the-shelf industrial language, opting instead for a tailor-made teaching language. The book introduces DrRacket, a programming environment for novices that fosters playful, feedback-oriented learning, evolving alongside readers as they master the material until it accommodates a full-fledged language for various programming tasks. This second edition retains its systematic approach to program design while introducing different design recipes for interactive programs with graphical interfaces and batch programs. Additionally, it enriches its design recipes for functions with numerous new hints and enhances the teaching languages and their IDE to include support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and distributed programming.