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Can you recommend any book by him? Or essays?

• 082349872349872 4y ago
  essays collected at: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ books listed at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra#Selected_publications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra#Selected_pu...
  • baxtr 4y ago
    Thanks for sharing! I realize I should have been clearer in my request. I was looking for 1-2 specific recommendations. I will look at the lists nonetheless.
    • rramadass 4y ago
      Two books that i can recommend; 1) A Method of Programming. 2) A Discipline of Programming. Browse the EWDs and read those whose titles interest you. My favourites are those dealing with Program Correctness and Languages. Note that understanding Dijkstra can be hard; so don't be discouraged if you don't "get" something at the first read.
• ryloric 4y ago
  EWD-898 I liked above is pretty great imo. I'v re-read it over half a dozen times over the years and still find it valuable.
• qsort 4y ago
  My personal favorites: On the cruelty of really teaching computer science: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF How do we tell truths that might hurt?: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.htm... The humble programmer: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340... The notational conventions I adopted and why: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1300.PDF https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1300.PDF The Mathematical Divide: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd12xx/EWD1268.PDF https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd12xx/EWD1268.PDF Why American Computing Science seems incurable: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd12xx/EWD1209.PDF https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd12xx/EWD1209.PDF