Product Description: This is a book on programming. However, it is neither a manual nor an introductory text book. Typical computer science categories (such as functionality, power, or efficiency) are of only marginal interest to the authors. Instead, where programming in its broadest sense is looked at from a psychological point of view - learning, perception, understanding, the design of programming languages or command sets, and most prominently, the representation of human programming knowledge are the topics forming the core of the book...read more

Product Description: This book is unique in that its stress is not on the mastery of a programming language, but on the importance and value of interactive problem solving. The authors focus on several specific interest worlds: mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and games; however, their approach can serve as a model that may be applied easily to other fields as well...read more

Product Description: This book is unique in that its stress is not on the mastery of a programming language, but on the importance and value of interactive problem solving. The authors focus on several specific interest worlds: mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and games; however, their approach can serve as a model that may be applied easily to other fields as well...read more