How to Design Programs, Third Edition





How to Design Program, Second Edition is about to appear with MIT Press. One of the original goals was to reduce the size of the book with the elimination of the past two parts. Sadly we discovered too many interesting application examples over the years and added too much text. For the third edition, we will separate the principles of design from some of the lengthy project-level examples, which will remain available as linked, on-line material. We really do wish to reduce the size of the print edition and thus improve its affordability. In the process, we will also improve some of the design material, e.g., the material on compositional and iterative design (in I and II), the material on program design, some new material on debugging with the design recipe and a few more smaller ideas.