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A discipline of programming Edsger W. Dijkstra
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.

But it by no means suggests that in order to be a great designer you must also be a great programmer. The sole justification for discipline in software development and maintenance, is that it as it prevents defects. Although programming is a discipline with a very large canon of existing work to draw from, the only code most programmers read is the code they maintain. A Discipline of Programming, E.W. What I write about computer programming applies to other fields of problem solving, such as engineering and mathematics. I think there are a large number of people in the JAP category who are there because programming is considered a discipline unto itself, with its own career path. They rarely look outside the code directly affecting their work. Instead, game design has emerged as its own distinct discipline. If DH were an accepted discipline, the recognition of programming activities or contributions to databases as scholarly accomplishment would not be such a big deal. Many of us, however, formerly self-studied the discipline of programming and filled in the gaps in our knowledge with most, if not all, of the subjects taught in the University programs. Today, I presented a position paper entitled “Programming Can Deepen Understanding Across Disciplines”. I think for some reason computer programming is often miscategorized as a discipline to study or a class to take that's only relevant for aspiring software engineers. But as Daylight argues in this fascinating historical account of the development of computer programming as a discipline in the 1950s and 60s, the real story is much more complicated. Dijkstra : I liked Test-Driven Development a lot more when it was called Correctness by Construction. Not just programming, but Mozart style of doing things. From the video one can understand that Edsger preferred Mozart's style of programming.