Psychology of computer programming by Gerald M. Weinberg

Psychology of computer programming Gerald M. Weinberg ebook
Format: djvu
ISBN: 0932633420, 9780932633422
Publisher: Dorset House
Page: 299

This is just a quick quote from the course description of a ten year old course in Cognitive Psychology and Computer Programming at the Texas A&M: Computer. ThoughtWorkers pitched in with their books recommendation and we ended up getting a great collection of books. With a few notable exceptions (e.g. We recently got new technical books for our office library. Murnane, 1993) most research about the cognitive effects of computer programming seemed to have focused on programming as a problem solving rather than a linguistic activity. The above explains why Gerald Weinberg, in The Psychology of Computer Programming (written in the 1970s, and still applicable), states that if a programmer becomes indispensable, you should fire him immediately. Long time since I wrote any blog.. What made me change my mind and become a professional programmer? If computer But on another, it's a psychological paradigm which functions in much the same way as a natural language: lifelong programmers develop a tendency to look at everything in their lives as a series of algorithms, and so on. Business; Medical/HealthCare; Computer Technology; Computer Engineering; Psychology; Computer Programming. Weinberg's The Psychology of Computer Programming, which I first read in 1982. Missouri residents who earn a Bachelor's degree are 50% less likely to become unemployed.