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Psychology of computer programming Gerald M. Weinberg
Publisher: Dorset House

Reduction of computer fears was examined by comparing changes in computer attitudes over a semester among two introductory computer programming classes and one introductory psychology class (N=50). Why should you, as a psychology student, or indeed any other kind of student, need to learn computer programming? This is just a quick quote from the course description of a ten year old course in Cognitive Psychology and Computer Programming at the Texas A&M: Computer. These are The Psychology of Computer Programming. That question calls forth all of computer science from low-level machine design, through compilers, operating systems, programming and interaction design, to psychology and organisation theory. I think the major culprit is Gerald Weinberg's book, The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silvery Anniversary Edition. So this is it; modern psychology, computer programming and neurophysiology meets ancient mysticism. Lilly's experiments showed that the brain could be treated as a programmable entity similar to a digital computer, but a computer which could program itself. Weinberg is eminently quotable. Lilly referred to this self-programming ability as metaprogramming, and reported on his research in his . Our standards, in other words, are shifting ones---a fact that has to be taken into full consideration in programming language design. I've taught myself computer programming, psychology, graphic design, nutrition, philosophy, evolutionary biology, finance and other subjects. Sometimes things go beautifully, sometimes a programmer spends whole days beating his head against the wall on a single point, until finally the light bulb lights up. The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary eBook EditionFeaturesGoods DescriptionThis landmark 1971 classical is reprinted next to a new. As I understand it, this book is a cult classic, and I was very curious to read it. Computer-Programming I recently read (sort of) Frederick Brooks's The Mythical Man-Month. Marcos Quinones found a new career working with people that will sustain him for the rest of his life.