{"product_id":"code-nation-personal-computing-and-the-learn-to-program-movement-in-america-hardback-9781450377584","title":"Code Nation; Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America (Hardback) 9781450377584","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCode Nation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePersonal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael J. Halvorson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781450377584\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e404 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 19 x 2.3 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eCode Nation\u003c\/i\u003e explores the rise of software development as a social, cultural, and technical phenomenon in American history. The movement germinated in government and university labs during the 1950s, gained momentum through corporate and counterculture experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, and became a broad-based computer literacy movement in the 1980s. As personal computing came to the fore, learning to program was transformed by a groundswell of popular enthusiasm, exciting new platforms, and an array of commercial practices that have been further amplified by distributed computing and the Internet. The resulting society can be depicted as a \"Code Nation\"—a globally-connected world that is saturated with computer technology and enchanted by software and its creation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCode Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is a new history of personal computing that 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. It is a popular history of computing that explores the experiences of novice computer users, tinkerers, hackers, and power users, as well as the ideals and aspirations of leading computer scientists, engineers, educators, and entrepreneurs. Computer book and magazine publishers also played important, if overlooked, roles in the diffusion of new technical skills, and this book highlights their creative work and influence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCode Nation\u003c\/i\u003e offers a \"behind-the-scenes\" look at application and operating-system programming practices, the diversity of historic computer languages, the rise of user communities, early attempts to market PC software, and the origins of \"enterprise\" computing systems. Code samples and over 80 historic photographs support the text. The book concludes with an assessment of contemporary efforts to teach computational thinking to young people.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow important is programming?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour computing mythologies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFORTRAN, Logo, and the Tower of Babel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvocating computer literacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour million BASIC programmers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePower users, tinkerers, and gurus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHackers and cyberpunks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComputer magazines and historical research\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeveloping for MS-DOS: authors and entrepreneurs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eC programming nation: from Tiny C to Microsoft Windows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Evangelism is sales done right\": PCs and commercial programming culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword: programming in the Internet age\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"ACM Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702539219224,"sku":"9781450377584","price":42.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/code-nation-personal-computing-and-the-learn-to-program-movement-in-america-hardback-9781450377584","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}