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

The Psychology of Computer Programming. We recently got new technical books for our office library. A Linguist, John Grinder and Mathematician, Richard Bandler created NLP during the seventies with strong interests in successful people, psychology, language, and computer programming. As most software development teams know, frequent code reviews ensure the containment of poor code quality such as inefficiencies in unit-level design and lack of adherence to coding standards. With a few notable exceptions (e.g. Edward mentioned what looks like an interesting book about how to be happy in your career as a computer programmer here. If computer But on another, it's a psychological paradigm which functions in much the same way as a natural language: lifelong programmers develop a tendency to look at everything in their lives as a series of algorithms, and so on. Long time since I wrote any blog.. Dorset House | September 1998 | ISBN-10: 0932633420 | 292 pages | PDF | 3.9 MB. He had written The Psychology of Computer Programming in 1970, a number of papers about testing during the sixties, including a section on testing in his 1961 book, Fundamentals of Computer Programming. Everyone ends up learning from their own mistakes and other people's mistakes.” – Jerry Weinberg, “The Psychology of Computer Programming”, 1971. Gerry Weinberg's Psychology of Computer Programming (1971) opened my mind to the ways in which psychology could be applied to programming. This landmark 1971 classic is reprinted with a new preface, chapter-by-chapter commentary, and straight-from-the-heart observations on topics that affect the professional life of programmers. 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. ThoughtWorkers pitched in with their books recommendation and we ended up getting a great collection of books. These are The Psychology of Computer Programming. Historically, the practice of code reviews existed in methodologies like RUP as both informal code they will find errors. Murnane, 1993) most research about the cognitive effects of computer programming seemed to have focused on programming as a problem solving rather than a linguistic activity.