Why is this book different from all other parallel programming books? It is aimed more on the practical end of things, in that: There is very little theoretical content, such as O() analysis, maximum theoretical speedup, PRAMs, directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and so...
I really don’t know how a news editor should choose what stories to put in front of people, because I don’t think it’s possible to cram the entire world into headlines. The publisher of a major international newspaper once told me that he delivers...
This online ebook is a companion to the influential computer-science text Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman. Its purpose is to demonstrate the Web’s potential to be a channel for innovative support for textbook...
Haskell is a deep language, and we think that learning it is a hugely rewarding experience. We will focus on three elements as we explain why. The first is novelty: we invite you to think about programming from a different and valuable perspective. The second is...
This book attempts to explain Computational Thinking, as if this were 2018, and not 1970. It is a first step in becoming a highly productive programmer who knows how to use tools developed over the last four decades to quickly write correct programs, or a software...
