... vision?
■ How much of this structure is applied to goal accomplish-
ment?
■ How much of this structure is to maintain overhead?
■ How much of this structure is dedicated to long-term
development?
■ How ... at reengineering the total organ-
ization from top to bottom in one strategic move. Instead of reengi-
neering your company, scrutinize your structure and look for
answers to these questions:
■ ... corporate ladder and the
need to climb to the top. My father worked for Gulf Oil for thirty
years. His sage advice to me was, “Son, go to college, get your
degree, and go to work for a big company....
... 1990s.
The only meritorious argument favoring stock splits is that they
reduce the per share price of stock and thus enable a wider investor
group to participate. If no U.S. company in history had ever ... monitoring mechanism that lends credibility to
the financial statements. For that credibility to be meaningful, how-
ever, the auditor must work closely with members of the board of
directors, ... incentive
is to set modest targets. In a stretch setting managers are encouraged
to set extraordinarily ambitious goals and are then evaluated accord-
ing tohow they did in one period compared to how...
... stock players who realize they played the greatest
fool in the Internet stock game, Cunningham offers a tool for rehabilita-
tion: a guide to thoughtful investing. For earnest investors, he shows ... philosophy, at General Electric, 224,
227, 229
Stochastic systems, 37
Stock mutual funds, 74, 77
Stock options, 208–212, 216–217
Stock repurchases, 52, 216–217
Stock splits, 217
Stretch philosophy, at ... contradicts the whole point of this
book for me to tell you who I believe are the up-and-coming star
CEOs. My picks are irrelevant toyour judgments.
Go back to the masters mentioned in Chapter 1 and...
... takes longer to read them. Also, the structure is very important, so
it is usually not a good idea to read from top to bottom, left to right. Instead,
learn to parse the program in your head, identifying ... short-answer responses.
• In order to write a program, students have to understand the algorithm,
know the programming language, and they have to be able to debug. I
think too many books neglect debugging. ... but it is important to realize
that they are not the same thing, except that they happen to have the same
value (in this case the string "Never say never.").
How toThink Like a Computer...
... takes
longer to read them. Also, the structure is very important, so it is usually not a good idea
to read from top to bottom, left to right. Instead, learn to parse the program in your head,
identifying ... now.
Thanks to the editors at Lulu who worked on HowtoThink Like a Computer Scientist.
Thanks to all the students who worked with earlier versions of this book and all the con-
tributors (listed ... and one of your variables.
3.14 Debugging
If you are using a text editor to write your scripts, you might run into problems with spaces
and tabs. The best way to avoid these problems is to use spaces...
... perform
for others, or compare your children to other children. Be careful
not to show disappointment if yourchild chooses not to sign in a
particular situation even if yourchild has signed in a similar
situation ... Garcia
THINGS TO REMEMBER
• It's never too late to begin signing. You can even use signs
after your toddler begins speaking. Signing will enhance
your communication and add an element of fun to your
lives.
• ... Interfere With My
Child& apos;s Speech Development? 24
To Contribute or to Commit? 25
How to Sign With Your Baby 26
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking 26
Gazes: Opportune Moments to Introduce Signs...
... Operators and operands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 1
The way of the program
The goal of this book is toteach you tothink like a computer scientist. This way
of thinking ... talking about howto combine them.
One of the most useful features of programming languages is their ability to take
small building blocks and compose them. For example, we know howto add
numbers ... text
editor to create a file named latoya.py with the following contents:
print 1 + 1
By convention, files that contain Python programs have names that end with .py.
To execute the program, we have to...