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wonderzombie on Aug 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar

So if I wanted to start reading Dijkstra, what's the best place to start?

wglb on Aug 21, 2012 [–]

His hand-written notes are here http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/. One biting example is http://www.smaldone.com.ar/documentos/ewd/EWD707_pretty.pdf.

His Discipline of Programming http://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Programming-Edsger-W-Dijkst...

There are some here http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=31 that might overlap with the texas ones. One famous one is about the cruelty of teaching computer programming: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF.

His wikipedia page has links to a number of his seminal ideas.

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