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Explores the rise of software development as a social, cultural, and technical phenomenon in American history. The book emphasizes the technical and business challenges that software developers faced when building applications for CP/M, MS-DOS, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, the Apple Macintosh, and other emerging platforms.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • How important is programming?
  • Four computing mythologies
  • FORTRAN, Logo, and the Tower of Babel
  • Advocating computer literacy
  • Four million BASIC programmers
  • Power users, tinkerers, and gurus
  • Hackers and cyberpunks
  • Computer magazines and historical research
  • Developing for MS-DOS: authors and entrepreneurs
  • C programming nation: from Tiny C to Microsoft Windows
  • "Evangelism is sales done right": PCs and commercial programming culture
  • Afterword: programming in the Internet age
  • Index

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      Publisher Association of Computing Machinery,U.S.
      Published 22 April 2020
      ISBN-13 9781450377584
      978-1450377584
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      Computer programming / software engineering Digital and IT general topics Software Engineering

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the rise of software development as a social, cultural, and technical phenomenon in American history. The book emphasizes the technical and business challenges that software developers faced when building applications for CP/M, MS-DOS, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, the Apple Macintosh, and other emerging platforms.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • How important is programming?
      • Four computing mythologies
      • FORTRAN, Logo, and the Tower of Babel
      • Advocating computer literacy
      • Four million BASIC programmers
      • Power users, tinkerers, and gurus
      • Hackers and cyberpunks
      • Computer magazines and historical research
      • Developing for MS-DOS: authors and entrepreneurs
      • C programming nation: from Tiny C to Microsoft Windows
      • "Evangelism is sales done right": PCs and commercial programming culture
      • Afterword: programming in the Internet age
      • Index

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