Description
Book SynopsisExplores 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
