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		WillAdams 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Design Programs 2nd Ed (2024) How does this compare to Ousterhout's _A Philosophy of Software Design_ https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37975558 Looking over the ToC there seems to be at least some overlap, but at a more basic level and sans the over arching concepts of APoSD.

Jtsummers 10 months ago [–]

HTDP teaches how to program. Philosophy does not. That's pretty much the entire difference, they're in different categories of books. Philosophy assumes you know how to program, and attempts to teach a way of programming. HTDP starts from the beginning with no assumptions about the reader's ability to program.

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