The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary eBook Edition by Gerald Weinberg

Author:Gerald Weinberg [Weinberg, Gerald]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Nonfiction
Publisher: Weinberg & Weinberg
Published: 2011-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

You almost expect the next sentence to read:

"Why some of my best friends aren't managers."

Given this elitist undercurrent in the thought of managers—or, to be more precise, of the staff people who prepare courses for managers—is it any wonder that the typical project management view of programming is rather remote from the individuality of the programmer and his task?

Williams, R. J., Biochemical Individuality, New York, Wiley, 1956.

Williams' highly individual book on individuality at the physical level should be required reading for all those who suffer from the illusion that "all programmers look alike." Can we really comprehend that some people have three kidneys and some have one and then still believe that each programmer should take the same amount of time to do the same job?

Tyler, L. E„ The Psychology of Human Differences, 3rd ed., New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1965.

Tyler does for humans at the psychological level what Williams does at the physical level. Is it a coincidence that both of these books saw the light in 1956, the year FORTRAN was born?

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