Programming

A programming language is a formal constructed language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs to control the behavior of a machine or to express algorithms.

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Natural Language Processing with Python by Steven Bird

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UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1 by W. Richard Stevens

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Quotes Tagged “Programming”

“ Programming is about managing complexity: the complexity of the problem, laid upon the complexity of the machine. Because of this complexity, most of our programming projects fail. ”
― Bruce Eckel, On Java 8

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“ Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. ”
― Joshua Bloch, Effective Java : Programming Language Guide

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