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

Marcos Quinones found a new career working with people that will sustain him for the rest of his life. Lilly's experiments showed that the brain could be treated as a programmable entity similar to a digital computer, but a computer which could program itself. Weinberg has spent the last 50 years transforming software organisations, and has co-authored many books, including The Psychology of Computer Programming and the Quality Software Management series. A computer programming gig for a psychology professor got him interested in neural network modeling and mathematical psychology, in which he earned his Ph.D. [The first of a planned series of posts on "Readings in Software Engineering"]. Why should you, as a psychology student, or indeed any other kind of student, need to learn computer programming? Lilly referred to this self-programming ability as metaprogramming, and reported on his research in his . So this is it; modern psychology, computer programming and neurophysiology meets ancient mysticism. [Version 1.1 of this post, revised/extended on 05/22/2012]. In addition to Krebs makes a good argument, I think there are several other reasons why we might want to consider treating computer programming as a core part of the liberal arts education. Jerry Weinberg was the first researcher to look at this stuff in his classic PSYCHOLOGY OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING. The above explains why Gerald Weinberg, in The Psychology of Computer Programming (written in the 1970s, and still applicable), states that if a programmer becomes indispensable, you should fire him immediately. There have been many references to this challenge over the years since the Garmisch conference, from Jerry Weinberg's “Psychology of Computer Programming” through Alistair's “cooperative game” ideas. From the University of Toronto in 1993. The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M.