Gerald M. Weinberg Dorset House Publishing Company, Paperback, Published September 1998, 292 pages, ISBN 0932633420
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This landmark 1971 classic is reprinted with a new preface, chapter-by-chapter commentary, and straight-from-the-heart observations on topics that affect the professional life of programmers.

Long regarded as one of the first books to pioneer a people-oriented approach to computing, The Psychology of Computer Programming endures as a penetrating analysis of the intelligence, skill, teamwork, and problem-solving power of the computer programmer.

Finding the chapters strikingly relevant to today's issues in programming, Gerald M. Weinberg adds new insights and highlights the similarities and differences between now and then. Using a conversational style that invites the reader to join him, Weinberg reunites with some of his most insightful writings on the human side of software engineering.

Topics include egoless programming, intelligence, psychological measurement, personality factors, motivation, training, social problems on large projects, problem-solving ability, programming language design, team formation, the programming environment, and much more.

Dorset House Publishing is proud to make this important text available to new generations of Weinberg fans—and to encourage readers of the first edition to return to its valuable lessons.

Table of Contents

PART 1. PROGRAMMING AS HUMAN PERFORMANCE 2

Comments on Part 1 P1.i

1 Reading Programs 5

An example 6

Machine limitations 7

Language limitations 9

Programmer limitations 10

Historical traces 11

Specifications 12

Summary 13

Bibliography 14

Comments on Chapter 1 1.i

2 What Makes a Good Program? 15

Specifications 17

Schedule 19

Adaptability 20

Efficiency 22

Summary 25

Questions 25

Bibliography 26

Comments on Chapter 2 2.i

3 How Can We Study Programming? 27

Introspection 28

Observation 30

Experiment 32

Psychological measurement 35

Using behavioral science data 38

Summary 39

Questions 40

Bibliography 41

Comments on Chapter 3 3.i

PART 2. PROGRAMMING AS A SOCIAL ACTIVITY 44

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4 The Programming Group 47

Formal and informal organization 47

Physical environment and social organization 50

Error and ego 52

Egoless programming 56

Creating and maintaining the programming environment 60

Summary 64

Questions 64

Bibliography 65

Comments on Chapter 4 4.i

5 The Programming Team 67

How a team forms 68

Establishing and accepting goals 72

Team leadership and team leaders 78

The team in crisis 85

Summary 91

Questions 92

Bibliography 93

Comments on Chapter 5 5.i

6 The Programming Project 95

Stability through change 96

Measuring performance 100

Project structure 106

Common social problems of large projects 109

Summary 112

Questions 113

Bibliography 115

Comments on Chapter 6 6.i

PART 3. PROGRAMMING AS AN INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY 118

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7 Variations in the Programming Task 121

Professional versus amateur programming 122

What the programmer is trying to do 126

Stages of programming work 132

Summary 137

Questions 138

Bibliography 139

Comments on Chapter 7 7.i

8 Personality Factors 141

Personality changes 143

Personality invariants 145

Critical personality traits 148

Personality testing 153

Personality testing of programmers 156

Summary 158

Questions 158

Bibliography 159

Comments on Chapter 8 8.i

9 Intelligence, or Problem-Solving Ability 161

Psychological set 162

Some dimensions of problem solving 164

Facets of programming intelligence 166

Aptitude tests 170

Aptitude tests for programming 171

Summary 176

Questions 177

Bibliography 177

Comments on Chapter 9 9.i

10 Motivation, Training, and Experience 180

Motivation 181

Training, schooling, and education 184

Forces against learning 188

How to learn programming 193

Summary 198

Questions 198

Bibliography 199

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PART 4. PROGRAMMING TOOLS 202

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11 Programming Languages 205

Programming language and natural language 206

Programming language design 211

Summary 214

Questions 214

Bibliography 215

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12 Some Principles for Programming

Language Design 217

Uniformity 218

Compactness 224

Locality and linearity 229

Tradition and innovation 232

Special-purpose, multipurpose, and toy languages 237

Summary 241

Questions 242

Bibliography 243

Comments on Chapter 12 12.i

13 Other Programming Tools 246

Program testing tools 247

Operating systems 251

Time sharing versus batch 259

Documentation 262

Summary 270

Questions 270

Bibliography 272

Comments on Chapter 13 13.i

PART 5. EPILOGUE 275

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Index 281

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