Programming is usually taught by examples.

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I have never designed a language for its own sake.

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My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

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Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

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Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

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It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

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But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

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Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

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The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

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