Explores 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.
Explores 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.
Michael J. Halvorson, Ph.D., is Benson Chair of Business and Economic History at Pacific Lutheran University, where he teaches courses on the history of business, computing, and technology. He has written widely on European history, application software, and programming personal computers, including the popular series Microsoft Visual Basic Step by Step, Pearson (2013). To learn more about the Code Nation project, visit www.thiscodenation.com.
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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
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
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