Programmers and Managers The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States
Norbert Wiener, perhaps better than anyone else, understood the intimate and delicate relationship between control and communication: that messages intended as commands do not necessarily differ from those intended simply as facts. Wiener noted the paradox when the modem computer was hardly more tha...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1977, 1977
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1977 |
| Series: | Heidelberg Science Library
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Table of Contents:
- Programmers, managers, and sociologists
- Expanding the data base
- How this study is organized
- A note on software scientists
- 1 Computers and the people who make them work
- The division of labor in programming
- Programmers as engineers
- The computer and how it grew
- Separation of user and programmer
- References
- 2 The organization of formal training
- The engineering heritage and its consequences
- Adapting tradition
- Programming and the academy
- References
- 3 De-skilling and fragmentation
- The de-skiller de-skilled
- Programming as mass production work
- References
- 4 The programmer’s workplace: Part I the “shop”
- The social structure of the programming workplace
- References
- 5 The programmer’s workplace: Part II careers, pay, and professionalism
- Careers for coders and low-level programmers
- Careers for managers
- Careers for technical specialists
- Pay
- Professionalism
- References
- 6 The routinization of computer programming
- Management practice and the de-skilling of programmers
- Predictions and other essays in prophesying
- The future programmers and programming
- References