- Title Pages
- LEONARDO
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction, the Stuff of Software
- Algorithm
- Analog
- Button
- Class Library
- Code (or, How You Can Write Something Differently)
- Codecs
- Computing Power
- Concurrent Versions System
- Copy
- Data Visualization
- Elegance
- Ethnocomputing
- Function
- Glitch
- Import/Export
- Information
- Intelligence
- Interaction
- Interface
- Internationalization
- Interrupt
- Language
- Lists
- Loop
- Memory
-
Obfuscated Code
1 - Object Orientation
- Perl
- Pixel
- Preferences/settings/options/control panels
- Programmability
- Sonic Algorithm
- Source Code
- System Event Sounds
- Text Virus
- Timeline (sonic)
- Variable
-
Weird Languages
1 - Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index
Algorithm
Algorithm
- Chapter:
- (p.14) (p.15) Algorithm
- Source:
- Software Studies
- Author(s):
Andrew Goffey
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter starts with the brief description of the importance of the algorithm concept in the field of software studies. It also focuses on the crucial role and historic position of the algorithm in the computer science field. The chapter proves that in the area of computational linguistics, the algorithm is the sum of logic and control that has its origins in ancient mathematics. The chapter also analyzes the concept of the statement and its relationship with the algorithm. Throughout the chapter, the works of several computer scientists are reflected upon for a better understanding of the core theme.
Keywords: algorithm, computer science, logic, control, software studies, ancient mathematics
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- Title Pages
- LEONARDO
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction, the Stuff of Software
- Algorithm
- Analog
- Button
- Class Library
- Code (or, How You Can Write Something Differently)
- Codecs
- Computing Power
- Concurrent Versions System
- Copy
- Data Visualization
- Elegance
- Ethnocomputing
- Function
- Glitch
- Import/Export
- Information
- Intelligence
- Interaction
- Interface
- Internationalization
- Interrupt
- Language
- Lists
- Loop
- Memory
-
Obfuscated Code
1 - Object Orientation
- Perl
- Pixel
- Preferences/settings/options/control panels
- Programmability
- Sonic Algorithm
- Source Code
- System Event Sounds
- Text Virus
- Timeline (sonic)
- Variable
-
Weird Languages
1 - Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index