Online Programming Tutorials

Programming is engineering, because the result (the program) is an artifact that works –it does something that is useful in its own right. Getting a program to work is hard, particularly when you’re a beginner, and you should feel proud of yourself when you get it working. That’s also why the majority of your grade on a programming assignment is based on just whether the program works at all. In my class, a working program will receive a minimum of about a 70–a passing score for a working program. The rest of the points come from the efficiency of the program (another aspect of the engineering task) and its style, which is important because programming is communication.

Continue