Re: Programming?

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> so hey, i can honestly say that i don't know how to program other than 
some
> QBasic, and HTML (the latter is debatable as an actual language) but 
i'm

HTML is a language, a "mark up" language, as it describes a document, 
but it is not a programming language.  A programming language 
describes a process, or algorythym.

> noticing something in this chain... it seems that learning to program 
is a
> lot like learning to drive a car: you don't necessarily need to have 
one
> specific type of car (Dodge Intrepid or Ford Probe or Kia Sportage...) 
but
> you do need to learn the basics of driving (gas on right to go, breaks 
on
> left to stop, wipers are good in rain, etc...) and i suppose that it's 
truly

This is most certainly true.

> more important to learn the proper techniques and logic to programming
> rather than the actual ins and outs of it all...
> now with that moment of either brilliance or ludicracy out of the way 
i was
> wondering... is there any good book which focuses more on the logic of
> programming rather than the exact specifics... teaching to flowchart 
and all

Sure, there are lots of them.  I have a book called "obect oriented 
programming", which while it has snippets of C++ and Small Talk it 
isn't really about either, but the nitty gritty of the concepts behind 
OO.  There are other books on desinging algorythms, etc...

> that kind of good stuff like the Boolean logic... or is that just 
something
> that most "good programming book" have?

And my "Logic 101" class in college covered a lot of that stuff, 
without any reference to a computer.  The most important thing, I 
think, is bieng able to deconstruct a process to it's elemental parts, 
a lot of programming problems are caused by really not understanding 
what it is you are trying to model (at least for me).