Initial conditions
There are any number of best places to start coding, which in practice is no help at all.
We’re going to cover a couple of techniques in this adventure, hopefully making it possible for everyone to get at least some sort of a grasp on some of the rudiments of programming. Of course, many weighty tomes on this subject have already been written and cover much more than we can hope to do in a handful of pages. So we won’t be recreating Donald Knuth’s seminal
The Art of Computer Programming
(TaoCP) or Randal L Schwartz’s era-defining
Programming Perl
here. But hopefully we’ll inspire some who haven’t heard of those texts to check them (and other coding lore) out.