debanjan16
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Can you elaborate a bit more on the reason?
Comment · 3 years ago
Even beginners can learn to program in a data oriented way from the beginning.
Two books that teach this style of programming to beginners are:
1. How to Design Programs - https://htdp.org/
2. A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing - https://dcic-world.org/
Comment · 3 years ago
The book utilises a series of Scheme based teaching languages to teach about how to write functions for increasingly complicated data types. The language levels produce meaningful error messages for programmers of that particular level and goes on adding language features as you progress through the book.
The book furthermore teaches a design recipe which comes in handy when you are stuck with a problem. Basically it teaches you to write examples first so that you understand the problem instead of jumping onto the editor to write code first. The examples help you structure your data. The rest of the code follows from it.
Comment · 3 years ago
I was actually in the school of thought that this article describes until I read and worked through the book How to Design Programs [0]. The rest is upto you to judge.
Edit: I would love others, who have read the above mentioned book, to weigh in with your anecdotes.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Not my favorite subject to be exact. But Probability really clicked for me after reading Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E.T. Jaynes.
Comment · 3 years ago
Keep us posted about the lectures. I don't find a personal website of you. Then I would have bookmarked it.
There are so many awesome lectures from other CMU courses like Andy Pavlo's Database, Keenan Crane's Graphics courses.
I so hope CMU records their intro courses and put them out in public.
Then I cam across the book How to Design Programs aka HTDP. I was skeptical at first. But I eventually started and worked through the second edition of the book available freely at https://www.htdp.org .
It was so beautiful. The teaching languages and writing examples before writing code. It made me really understand programming.
Now I can pick up any language (not that I become a language expert overnight) in a short time. I only need to map the concepts to this new language. And that's that. I can even pattern match my ideas from higher order functions to imperative looping constructs.
I have another book in to TDR list. It is Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming.