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A discipline of programming Edsger W. Dijkstra
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.

The most common excuse is that "a cluttered desk is a sign of a brilliant mind. Their desks are often littered with stacks of paper and other debris. As long as I have been programming (about 35 years now) a common, recurring, and never ending discussion though is how to categorize programming as a discipline. The discipline requires considerable programming and computing knowledge, as well as visualization, so that the insights extracted from the data can be presented in a way that reinforces human cognition. They rarely look outside the code directly affecting their work. Experienced programmers will tell you that ignoring warnings is a bad practice. Many complex models attempt to deal with the deadlock problem—with backoff-and-retry protocols, for example—but they require strict discipline by programmers, and some introduce their own problems (e.g., livelock). One way to get rid of warnings from your code is to pay attention to the warnings and fix the code. A disciplined and knowledgeable programmer, who is strong in implementation, but lacks creativity and drive. Unknown November 13, 2011 at 10:29 AM. As I recently noted, I'm making some shifts in my work so that I can focus more on some of these questions surrounding how do we create learning environments for non-programmers to learn programming. IMHO, the closer you are to the money, the more you make. I've done both and I think it is unfair. And experienced individual who could create great solutions; however inconsistent and unpredictable. It is well known that programmers generally abhor organization and discipline. Although programming is a discipline with a very large canon of existing work to draw from, the only code most programmers read is the code they maintain. Great programming is a discipline.