Details Quote by Niklaus Wirth

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

— Alan Turing

Programming is usually taught by examples.

— Niklaus Wirth

“Richard continued, “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to…

— Douglas Adams

“Programming was very different from mathematics, as it was far more creative. In math, there was one right answer, and you worked at a…

— B.V. Larson

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more…

— Bram Cohen

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

— Edsger Dijkstra

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

— Seymour Papert

My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for…

— Seymour Papert

Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely…

— Niklaus Wirth

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

— Alan Perlis