it takes 300 pages for him to get to the point of developing simple algorithms of the type you meet in the first chapter of an algorithm textbook That's imposs

it takes 300 pages for him to get to the point of developing simple algorithms of the type you meet in the first chapter of an algorithm textbook That's impossible; Discipline of Programming has only 217 pages of text. Surely you've been so enthralled by your reading that you didn't notice skipping through the covers to the book laying below!