Re: grassroots level SPARK Initiation

[Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com>]

My problem is untold difficulty with algorithms. Even-though I may understand easily how they operate in natural language (say, binary search through a sorted container), I cannot code it: more than 25+ lines (of myself), and I don't understand it anymore. Then I'm "forced" to tweak things here and there, until it works. I know I shouldn't debug like this, and I hate it too. especially not knowing what I do.

I'm self-taught.
You see, I have way much more perseverance than talentedness. Probaly a tad less naturally talented than your average student. Hence I would like to have the logical structure of I write/would like to write buried in my mind before touching the keyboard. To make things as mechanical as possible, for the moment at least.
I saw there was a thing called "propositional" calculus: is it covered by Gries book ? Were you a patented programmer before reading it ? I read the prerequisite is "one year of experience", but I'm not sure what it entails. One year of being able to actually code for living ?
Well, I found it free on the web, I'll see for myself. And start train math and logical reasoning elsewhere too.