| PART 1. PROGRAMMING AS HUMAN PERFORMANCE 2
Comments on Part 1 P1.i 1 Reading Programs 5
An example 6 Machine limitations 7 Language limitations 9 Programmer
limitations 10 Historical traces 11 Specifications 12 Summary
13 Bibliography 14 Comments on Chapter 1 1.i 2
What Makes a Good Program? 15 Specifications 17 Schedule
19 Adaptability 20 Efficiency 22 Summary 25 Questions
25 Bibliography 26 Comments on Chapter 2 2.i 3
How Can We Study Programming? 27 Introspection 28 Observation
30 Experiment 32 Psychological measurement 35 Using behavioral
science data 38 Summary 39 Questions 40 Bibliography 41 Comments
on Chapter 3 3.i PART 2. PROGRAMMING AS A SOCIAL ACTIVITY
44 Comments on Part 2 4 The
Programming Group 47 Formal and informal organization 47 Physical
environment and social organization 50 Error and ego 52 Egoless programming
56 Creating and maintaining the programming environment 60 Summary
64 Questions 64 Bibliography 65 Comments on Chapter 4 4.i 5
The Programming Team 67 How a team forms 68 Establishing
and accepting goals 72 Team leadership and team leaders 78 The team
in crisis 85 Summary 91 Questions 92 Bibliography 93 Comments
on Chapter 5 5.i 6 The Programming Project 95
Stability through change 96 Measuring performance 100 Project structure
106 Common social problems of large projects 109 Summary 112 Questions
113 Bibliography 115 Comments on Chapter 6 6.i PART
3. PROGRAMMING AS AN INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY 118 Comments
on Part 3 P3.i 7 Variations in the Programming Task
121 Professional versus amateur programming 122 What
the programmer is trying to do 126 Stages of programming work 132 Summary
137 Questions 138 Bibliography 139 Comments on Chapter 7 7.i 8
Personality Factors 141 Personality changes 143 Personality
invariants 145 Critical personality traits 148 Personality testing
153 Personality testing of programmers 156 Summary 158 Questions
158 Bibliography 159 Comments on Chapter 8 8.i 9
Intelligence, or Problem-Solving Ability 161 Psychological
set 162 Some dimensions of problem solving 164 Facets of programming
intelligence 166 Aptitude tests 170 Aptitude tests for programming
171 Summary 176 Questions 177 Bibliography 177 Comments
on Chapter 9 9.i 10 Motivation, Training, and Experience
180 Motivation 181 Training, schooling, and education
184 Forces against learning 188 How to learn programming 193 Summary
198 Questions 198 Bibliography 199 Comments on Chapter 10 10.i PART
4. PROGRAMMING TOOLS 202 Comments on Part 4 P4.i 11
Programming Languages 205 Programming language and natural
language 206 Programming language design 211 Summary 214 Questions
214 Bibliography 215 Comments on Chapter 11 11.i 12
Some Principles for Programming Language Design 217 Uniformity
218 Compactness 224 Locality and linearity 229 Tradition and
innovation 232 Special-purpose, multipurpose, and toy languages 237 Summary
241 Questions 242 Bibliography 243 Comments on Chapter 12 12.i 13
Other Programming Tools 246 Program testing tools 247 Operating
systems 251 Time sharing versus batch 259 Documentation 262 Summary
270 Questions 270 Bibliography 272 Comments on Chapter 13 13.i PART
5. EPILOGUE 275 Comments on Part 5 P5.i Index
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