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PART 1. PROGRAMMING AS HUMAN PERFORMANCE 2
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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
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2 What Makes a Good Program? 15
Specifications 17
Schedule 19
Adaptability 20
Efficiency 22
Summary 25
Questions 25
Bibliography 26
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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
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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
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Error and ego 52
Egoless programming 56
Creating and maintaining the programming environment
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Summary 64
Questions 64
Bibliography 65
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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
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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
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PART 3. PROGRAMMING AS AN INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY
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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
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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
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9 Intelligence, or Problem-Solving Ability
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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
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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
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Summary 241
Questions 242
Bibliography 243
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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
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PART 5. EPILOGUE 275
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Index 281
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