Principles of Program Design

By Michael A. Jackson

Book Overview

This book is about programming for data processing applications, and its purpose is to present a coherent method and procedure for designing systems, programs, and components. The main emphasis is on the structure: on the dissection of a problem into parts and the arrangement of those parts to form a solution.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0123790506
• ISBN13: 9780123790507
• Release Date: February 1975
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Will help you reduce bugs in your programs

The book explores a simple and powerful idea, that having your program logic match your data structures will result in correct programs.This is one of the best books on writing programs that really work.

The best computer science book I've read.

After 18 graduate classes in computer science, it is still one of the most profound CS ideas I know.