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From: riks@athena.UUCP (Rik Smoody)
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Subject: Re: Computer requirements to enter college and hackers as good programmers
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 13:37:53 EST
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> Many readers have pointed out the need for skills in refining logic and
> problem solving.  There is an excellent book for both those entering
> college and those hacking.  It's written by a professor of Mechanical
> Engineering at Stanford (know him Brian?).  The book in entitled
> 
> 	"Conceptual Blockbusting"
> It's published by W.H. Freeman (The people who reprint Scientific American
> papers).  I don't quite remember the man's name (Perhaps Martin?).
> It's in it's second edition and the author has been requested to write a
> follow on text.  I highly recommend it.  It's quite readable; thin, and
> it poses some interesting problems for the reader.
> 
> 
> --eugene miya
>   NASA Ames Research Center
>   {hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,vortex}!ames!aurora!eugene
>   emiya@ames-vmsb.ARPA

The author is James L Adams.
I further the recommendation.
Rik Smoody