Psychology of computer programming. Gerald M. Weinberg

Psychology of computer programming


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Psychology of computer programming Gerald M. Weinberg
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The human principles of software are truly timeless; The Psychology of Computer Programming was written way back in 1971. Weinberg has spent the last 50 years transforming software organisations, and has co-authored many books, including The Psychology of Computer Programming and the Quality Software Management series. I recently read (sort of) Frederick Brooks's The Mythical Man-Month. He had written The Psychology of Computer Programming in 1970, a number of papers about testing during the sixties, including a section on testing in his 1961 book, Fundamentals of Computer Programming. Why should you, as a psychology student, or indeed any other kind of student, need to learn computer programming? Gerry Weinberg's Psychology of Computer Programming (1971) opened my mind to the ways in which psychology could be applied to programming. There have been many references to this challenge over the years since the Garmisch conference, from Jerry Weinberg's “Psychology of Computer Programming” through Alistair's “cooperative game” ideas. This was a great book in many ways but sometimes I think it fell short. As I understand it, this book is a cult classic, and I was very curious to read it. That question calls forth all of computer science from low-level machine design, through compilers, operating systems, programming and interaction design, to psychology and organisation theory. Comments to local standards, program specs, increased performance, etc. It was called the Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald Weinberg.