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Brian Harvey and Matthew Wright, Preface to Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science, 2nd edition, MIT Press, 1999.
Fred Brooks, The Joys and Woes of the Craft, excerpt from Chapter 1 in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 1974, 1995. http://www1.cptec.inpe.br/~enivaldo/joys_woes.html
Peter Norvig, Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years. http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html
Not assigned but also pertinent:
Ellen Ullman, Chapter 5 (especially pages 110 -- 113) in Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents, City Lights Books, 1997.
Bruce J. MacLennan, "Who cares about elegance?" The Role of Aesthetics in Programming Language Design, Technical Report UT-CS-97-344, Computer Science Department University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1997. http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/anon-ftp/Elegance.html
Eric Raymond (ed.), elegant, definition from The Jargon File, also published as The New Hacker's Dictionary, MIT Press, 1996. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/
Richard Kelsey, William Clinger, Jonathan Rees (eds.), Introduction (especially the first paragraph) to Revised5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, in Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, Vol. 11, No. 1, September, 1998, also ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 33, No. 9, October, 1998. http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/
Richard Gabriel, The Rise of Worse is Better, section 3.2.1 in Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How To Win Big, AI Expert, Vol. 6, No. 6, June 1991, pages 31 -- 39. http://www.ai.mit.edu/docs/articles/good-news/good-news.html
Jon Bentley, The Back of the Envelope, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 3, March 1984, pages 180 -- 182.
Jon Bentley, Perspective on Performance, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 11, November 1984, pages 1087 -- 1089.
These two articles appear in slightly different form as Chapters 6 and 5 in Jon Bentley, Programming Pearls, Addison Wesley, 1986.
James Matthews, Peter Gloor, Fillia Makedon, VideoScheme: A Programmable Video Editing System for Automation and Media Recognition. In Proceeding of the 1993 ACM Multimedia Conference, pages 419 -- 426. A later version with additional material appears in http://www.birkhauser.com/hypermedia/cyb127.html, cyb128.html, and cyb129.html.
Herbert A. Simon, Roots of Artificial Intelligence, Chapter 12, pages 189 -- 197 in Models of My Life, Basic Books, 1991.
Eugene Charniak and Drew McDermott, Managing Plans of Action, excerpt from Chapter 9, pages 485 -- 495 in Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Addison-Wesley, 1985.
Phil Agre, The soul gained and lost: Artificial intelligence as a philosophical project, Stanford Humanities Review Vol. 4, No. 2, 1995, pages 1 -- 19. http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/shr.html
Harold Abelson, Computation as a Framework for Engineering Education, Chapter 10, excerpt on pages 191 -- 198 in Albert R. Myer (ed.), Research directions in computer science : an MIT perspective, MIT Press, 1991.