What is an algorithm ?! Part one

We tear together the main brick of the programmer - Algorithm .

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The current state of programming is teaching the craft for the most part by personal practice or by parsing examples of third-party code that you have to deal with for some reason.

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References

• Open source (GPL) project: ( General theory of wiki algorithms )
• The first article of the topic "We develop the theory of algorithms as an open source project": ( Article Habr )
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