How long does it take to read How to Design Programs?
An Introduction to Programming and Computing
How to Design Programs by Matthias Felleisen takes about 13 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 21 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2001. 728 pages, about 200,200 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This introduction to programming places computer science in the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike other introductory books, it focuses on the program design process. This approach fosters a variety of skills -- critical reading, analytical thinking, creative synthesis, and attention to detail -- that are important for everyone, not just future computer programmers. The book exposes readers to two fundamentally new ideas. First, it presents program design guidelines that show the reader how to analyze a problem statement; how to formulate concise goals; how to make up examples; how to develop an outline of the solution, based on the analysis; how to finish the program; and how to test. Each step produces a well-defined intermediate product. Second, the book comes with a novel programming environment, the first one explicitly designed for beginners. The environment grows with the readers as they master the material in the book until it supports a full-fledged language for the whole spectrum of programming tasks. - Publisher.
Subjects: Electronic data processing, Computer programming, racket, Computer science, Programmation (Informatique), Informatique
