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Doing the Things That Coders Do
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
There is not just one way to code, and there is not only one programming language in which to do it. A recent survey by the analyst firm RedMonk listed the top one hundred languages in widespread use in 2021. [PLR]
Nevertheless, there are common ideas about processing and computing with information across programming languages, even if their expressions and implementations vary. In this chapter, I introduce those ideas and data structures. I don’t focus on how we write everything in any particular language but instead discuss the concepts. I do include some examples from other languages to show you the variation of expression.
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