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Since last year I’ve been thinking about something and I’m going to ask here, because nobody that I’ve asked has any idea…

The question is – is there a course or something similar on the topic how to solve problems? Where you can find an explanation of the things like the basic methodology (understanding the problem, reproducing, splitting it, verifying the solution, etc.), of the principles like it’s good to think from time to time about something else, what to do when you paint yourself in a corner, etc., etc…

Turns out that a lot of people have no idea how to solve some a bit more complex problems and just stop, being unable to do anything – which is pretty bad when the person is a programmer on whom something depends… Delian has a good example for this – a lot of people can solve the problem of a way in a two-dimensional labyrinth, but when it gets to 3 or more dimensions most people are unable to think it (and it’s as simple as how to find the adjoining cells and one depth- or breadth-first search).

The people whom I’ve asked and can do this have all taught themselves, with a lot of head-bashing and hard labour. I, being the lazy type am thinking that there should be an easier way to do this, like someone to have written a book on it by now… The closest we got to this was a textbook on logic like for first-course CS students (I should check what happened with that).

So, does someone know where can I find a textbook on thinking ?:)

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