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Coders at Work: Reflections on the craft of programmingSeibel: I guess thatБЂ™s KnuthБЂ™s job, right? Steele: Knuth and people like him, absolutely. Seibel: Presumably people who study computer science in school get guided through all that stuff. But there are also a lot of programmers who came into it without formal training, learning on the job. Do you have any advice for how to tackle that problem? Where do you start and how do you get to the point where you can actually read these technical papers and understand them? Should you start at the beginning of the ACM and try to get up to the present? Steele: Well, first of all, let me say that that exercise of reading through CACM from early on wasnБЂ™t my plan to become a great computer scientist by reading everything there was in the literature. I read it because I was interested in stuff and felt internally motivated to tackle that particular set of material. So I guess there are two things: one is having the internal motivation to want to read this stuff because youБЂ™re interested or because you think it will improve your skills ...» |
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