Re: OT - Book on Programming

2003-09-03 Thread Gregory Wright
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 07:54 PM, Matthew Donadio wrote: They have several people in the company who understand the mechanics of programming, but don't really understand the concepts. I am looking for a book to recommend to them. I would really like to find a book that just discusses p

Re: OT - Book on Programming

2003-09-03 Thread Shae Matijs Erisson
Matthew Donadio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They have several people in the company who understand the mechanics of > programming, but don't really understand the concepts. I am looking for > a book to recommend to them. I would really like to find a book that > just discusses programming, and

Re: OT - Book on Programming

2003-09-02 Thread David Van Horn
How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing by Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, and Krishnamurthi is rather good at introducing the fundamentals of programming in my opinion. I've given the book to friends of mine with no background in programming or computer science and they've

OT - Book on Programming

2003-09-02 Thread Matthew Donadio
Hi all, This is a little off-topic, but I know there are a lot of people here with teaching experience. I am looking for a good book on programming. I recently picked up a gig doing ActionScript programming for a multimedia company. They have very good designers, but not very good programmers.