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This book presents computer programming as a key method for solving mathematical problems. It outlines the shortest possible path from no previous experience with programming to a set of skills that allows the students to write simple programs.

This book is the fruit of a vision for teaching programming languages by integrating the ‘two cultures’ that have evolved in its pedagogy. One culture is based on interpreters, while the other emphasizes a survey of languages.

This book is not going to praise object-oriented programming or condemn the Old Way. We are simply going to use ANSI-C to discover how object-oriented programming is done, what its techniques are, why they help us solve bigger problems, and how we harness generality and program to catch mistakes earlier.

The main objective of this textbook is to provide a uniform account of both the foundations of logic programming and simple programming techniques in the programming language Prolog. The discussion of the foundations also facilitates a systematic survey of variants of the logic programming scheme, like constraint logic programming, deductive databases or concurrent logic programming.

This book encourages learning by abstraction from concrete examples, of understanding calculus through actually ‘doing’ it in an explicitly operational manner, and of gaining oversight of the layers between a simple, foundational system and a rich language of variegated constructs and structures.

This book is going to try to teach you the things about Unix development that Unix experts know, but aren’t aware that they know. It is therefore less about technicalia and more about shared culture than most Unix books – both explicit and implicit culture, both conscious and unconscious traditions.