Me, when I started programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year gap—I turned instead to newer languages like Python and JavaScript. Every once in a while, though, I’ll hunt down an ...

The author introduces some basic dynamic programming techniques, using examples, with the help of the computer algebra system Maple. The emphasis is on building confidence and intuition for the ...

The pioneer of structured programming, Edsger Dijkstra, said in 1975, for example, that it was almost impossible to teach good programming to students who had previously come into contact with BASIC.