I. What Questions Are Important to the Professional?
How Long Does It Take to Make a Programmer?
Can the Handicapped Succeed as Programmers?
What Are the Paradigms for a Professional Programmer?
Can a Professional Be Happy in This Job?
The Impatient Psychiatrist: A Fable
II. How Do Professionals Get that Way?
Programmers Are Too Valuable To Be Trusted
to Computers
Training for Flexibility
The Cricket Who Wanted to Play Cricket: A Fable
The Cricket Who Wanted to Play Baseball: A Fable
III. Why Do Programmers Behave The Way They
Do?
Personal Chemistry and the Healthy Body
What A Programmer Needs in Order to Change
Fooling with Rules
All I want Is a Little Respect!
The Butterfly and the Buttercup: A Fable
IV. Is It Possible to Think More Effectively?
Why Don't People Think?
What Kind of Thinker Are You?
Is It Concentration or Compulsion?
Can a Brain Be Unhealthy?
Why Don't I Run Out of Ideas?
The Eager Beaver and The Clever Cleaver: A Fable
V. Why Doesn't Everyone Understand Me?
Overrunning the Output Recipient
RE-writing and The Preparation H Test
Say What You Mean, or Mean What You Say
Iatrogenic Pathology
How to Be Misunderstood with Statistics
A Lesson from the University
The Mouse and the Iron: A Fable
VI. How Can I Survive in a Bureaucracy?
Job Rotation Around the Mid-City Triangle
Large Organizations, Small Computers, and Independent
Programmers
Management View the World by Moonlight
Productivity Measurement: We've Probably Got
It Backwards
Can Humor Be Productive?
The Order of Maria Theresa
The Phox and The Pheasants: A Phable
VII. Where Is the Programming Profession Going
Next?
What Will Programming Be Like in One Hundred
Years?
How Long Should A Programming Career Be?
How Long Should I Stay In Programming?
How Can I Prepare Myself for the Future?
The Tortoise and The Hair: A Fable
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