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Subject: Re: Computer requirements to enter college and hackers as good programmers
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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?).
> --eugene miya
>   NASA Ames Research Center

	I haven't read the book mentioned, but W.H. Freeman has a number
of books by Martin Gardner.  I have "aha!Insight" which presents combinatorics,
geometry, number theory, logic, heuristics, and word games in the form of
puzzles.  I wish that I had read his books back in high school, or as a 
supplement to my Combinatorics class.  Books like these make learning the 
subject matter fun. 

Cindy Paloma
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Cindy Paloma	UCSD Academic Computing Center, C-010	La Jolla, CA  92093
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