David and Solomon

I've just finished David and Solomon by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, authors of The Bible Unearthed on how poorly archaeology supports the Bible. This book is on what archaeology has to say about the David and Solomon stories. I'll summarize their reconstructed version:

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Elements of Computer Programming

I've always thought that the basics of computer programming were rather simple. Let me see if I can convey something of that to the non-programmers who read this. The idea isn't to teach a useful skill in any actual language, but to convey the idea of what's going on, in concrete enough elements that you could think about how to do something with those elements, and thus demystify what the computer is doing.

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