Everything about Computer programming

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Computer programmingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The effect of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool use on students' computational thinking skills, programming self-efficacy and motivationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Managerial AccountingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mappingCited 19,106 times
5. Go sideways: High-level programming languageA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Outline of computer programmingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping

  Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman · 2009 · Scientometrics · 19,106 citations

• TCS: a computer program to estimate gene genealogies

  M. Clement, D. Posada, K. A. Crandall · 2000 · Molecular Ecology · 8,357 citations

• FSTAT (Version 1.2): A Computer Program to Calculate F-Statistics

  J. Goudet · 1995 · Journal of Heredity · 6,604 citations

• Revising how the computer program cervus accommodates genotyping error increases success in paternity assignment

  STEVEN T. KALINOWSKI, MARK L. TAPER, TRISTAN C. MARSHALL · 2007 · Molecular Ecology · 4,639 citations

• A Monte Carlo computer program for the transport of energetic ions in amorphous targets

  J.P. Biersack, L.G. Haggmark · 1980 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods · 4,517 citations

• SUPERFLIP – a computer program for the solution of crystal structures by charge flipping in arbitrary dimensions

  Lukáš Palatinus, Gervais Chapuis · 2007 · Journal of Applied Crystallography · 4,229 citations

• An axiomatic basis for computer programming

  C. A. R. Hoare · 1969 · Communications of the ACM · 3,910 citations

• ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine

  Joseph Weizenbaum · 1966 · Communications of the ACM · 3,812 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The effect of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool use on students' computational thinking skills, programming self-efficacy and motivation

  Ramazan Yilmaz, Fatma Gizem Karaoglan Yilmaz · 2023 · Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence · 632 citations

• Programming memristor arrays with arbitrarily high precision for analog computing

  Wenhao Song, Mingyi Rao, Yunning Li · 2024 · Science · 219 citations

• Role of ChatGPT in Computer Programming.

  Som Biswas · 2023 · Mesopotamian Journal of Computer Science · 137 citations

• Potentials of ChatGPT in Computer Programming: Insights from Programming Instructors

  Anas Husain · 2024 · Journal of Information Technology Education: Research · 36 citations

• Computer programming in primary schools: Swedish Technology Teachers’ pedagogical strategies

  Eva-Lena Bjursten, Tor Nilsson, Lena Gumaelius · 2022 · International Journal of Technology and Design Education · 20 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Managerial AccountingJerry J. Weygandt · 1999
• The art of computer programmingDonald Knuth · 1922
• The C Programming LanguageBrian W. Kernighan, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie · 1978
• Introducing ComputersRobert H. Blissmer · 1988
• C++Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel · 1996
• Java for dummiesBarry A. Burd, Barry Burd · 2006
• C How to ProgramPaul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel · 2007
• JavaScriptDavid Flanagan · 1996

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🔗 Related topics

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