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Heidelberg Science Library: Programmers and Managers : The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States by Philip Kraft (1977, Trade Paperback)

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Number of Pages: 118. Author: Kraft, P. (Author). Weight: 0.43 lbs. Publication Date: 1977-07-18. Publisher: Springer.

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Norbert Wiener, perhaps better than anyone else, understood the intimate and delicate relationship between control and communication: that messages intended as commands do not necessarily differ from those intended simply as facts. Wiener noted the paradox when the modem computer was hardly more than a laboratory curiosity. Thirty years later, the same paradox is at the heart of a severe identity crisis which con fronts computer programmers. Are they primarily members of "management" acting as foremen, whose task it is to ensure that orders emanating from executive suites are faithfully trans lated into comprehensible messages? Or are they perhaps sim ply engineers preoccupied with the technical difficulties of relating "software" to "hardware" and vice versa? Are they aware, furthermore, of the degree to which their work whether as manager or engineer-routinizes the work of others and thereby helps shape the structure of social class relation ships? I doubt that many of us who lived through the first heady and frantic years of software development-at places like the RAND and System Development Corporations-ever took time to think about such questions. The science fiction-like setting of mysterious machines, blinking lights, and torrents of numbers served to awe outsiders who could only marvel at the complexity of it all. We were insiders who constituted a secret society into which only initiates were welcome. So today I marvel at the boundless audacity of a rank out sider in writing a book like Programmers and Managers.

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Springer New York
ISBN-10
0387902481
ISBN-13
9780387902487
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Author
Philip Kraft
Publication Name
Programmers and Managers : the Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Heidelberg Science Library
Publication Year
1977
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
118 Pages

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9.3in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz

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Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Qa76.25
Table of Content
Programmers, managers, and sociologists.- Expanding the data base.- How this study is organized.- A note on software scientists.- 1 Computers and the people who make them work.- The division of labor in programming.- Programmers as engineers.- The computer and how it grew.- Separation of user and programmer.- References.- 2 The organization of formal training.- The engineering heritage and its consequences.- Adapting tradition.- Programming and the academy.- References.- 3 De-skilling and fragmentation.- The de-skiller de-skilled.- Programming as mass production work.- References.- 4 The programmer's workplace: Part I the "shop".- The social structure of the programming workplace.- References.- 5 The programmer's workplace: Part II careers, pay, and professionalism.- Careers for coders and low-level programmers.- Careers for managers.- Careers for technical specialists.- Pay.- Professionalism.- References.- 6 The routinization of computer programming.- Management practice and the de-skilling of programmers.- Predictions and other essays in prophesying.- The future programmers and programming.- References.
Copyright Date
1977
Topic
Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Programming / General, Careers / General, General, Data Processing
Lccn
77-001667
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Computers, Business & Economics

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