Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America
Author:   Michael J. Halvorson
Publisher:   Association of Computing Machinery,U.S.
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Pages:   404
Publication Date:   30 April 2020
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Author:   Michael J. Halvorson
Publisher:   Association of Computing Machinery,U.S.
Imprint:   Association of Computing Machinery,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 19.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.694kg
ISBN:  

9781450377577


ISBN 10:   1450377572
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   30 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Acknowledgments How important is programming? Four computing mythologies FORTRAN, Logo, and the Tower of Babel Advocating computer literacy Four million BASIC programmers Power users, tinkerers, and gurus Hackers and cyberpunks Computer magazines and historical research Developing for MS-DOS: authors and entrepreneurs C programming nation: from Tiny C to Microsoft Windows ""Evangelism is sales done right"": PCs and commercial programming culture Afterword: programming in the Internet age Index"

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Michael J. Halvorson, Ph.D., is Benson Chair of Business and Economic History at Pacific Lutheran University, where he teaches courses on the history of business, computing, and technology. He has written widely on European history, application software, and programming personal computers, including the popular series Microsoft Visual Basic Step by Step, Pearson (2013). To learn more about the Code Nation project, visit www.thiscodenation.com.

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