To celebrate the publication of the eBooks of The Art of Computer Programming, (TAOCP), we asked several computer scientists, contemporaries, colleagues, and well-wishers to pose one question each to author Donald E. Knuth. Here are his answers. Like this article? We recommend Art of Computer…

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Learn To Build March 28, 2014 I recently received an email from a friend who isn’t a software engineer but is working at a well-known Silicon Valley tech company. She asked if I could recommend any good “basic coding courses” in order to learn enough to hang with the engineers at her company. Being…

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