Programming on Purpose II
Essays on Software People
Published on 1. July 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-13-328105-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume offers a collection of essays drawn from Plauger's popular monthly column, "Programming on Purpose," in Computer Language magazine. Volume II, Essays on Software People, explores the often neglected human side of the computer software business and offers lots of useful advice to software writers for surviving in the business world. KEY TOPICS: Focusing throughout on people-related matters - from business ethics to pragmatics - Plauger shows software writers how to be really ingenious, how to protect the fruits of their ingenuity, how to mix technology with politics, how NOT to write shelfware, and how to deal with everyone - from customers to employees to venture capitalists.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Upper Saddle River
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-328105-7 (9780133281057)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Honestly, Now. 2. You Can't Do That. 3. Protecting Intellectual Property. 4. What and How. 5. Skin and Bones. 6. Product Reviews. 7. Awaiting Reply. 8. Soup or Art? 9. The Seven Warning Signs. 10. The Politics of Standards. 11. Setting the Standard. 12. All the Standard Reasons. 13. The Physicist as Programmer. 14. Shelfware. 15. It's Not My Fault. 16. Customer Service. 17. Heresies of Software Management. 18. Watching the Watchers. 19. Washing the Watchers. 20. Who's Always Right? 21. The Cycle of Complexity. 22. Pity the Typist. 23. Criticism. 24. Piled Higher and Deeper. 25. Lawyers. 26. Bankers. Appendix A: List of Columns. Appendix B: Bibliography. Index.