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Title: Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America
Description: Code Nation is a popular history of programming and software culture from the first years of personal computing in the 1970s to the early commercial infrastructure of the World Wide Web. This illustration-rich book offers profiles of ACM members and luminaries who have had an important influence on programming practices, as well as the formative experiences of students, power users, and tinkerers who learned to code on early PCs and built captivating games and applications. Central to this history is the learn to program movement, an educational agenda that germinated in government labs, gained momentum through business and counterculture experiments, and became a broad-based computer literacy movement in the 1970s and 80s. Despite conflicts about languages, operating systems, and professional practices, the number of active programmers in America jumped from tens of thousands in the late 1950s to tens of millions by the early 1990s. This surge created a groundswell of popular support for programming culture, resulting in a “Code Nation”—a globally-connected society saturated with computer software and enchanted by its use.
Authors: Michael J. Halvorson
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Subjects: Computer programming
Categories: COMPUTERS / History, COMPUTERS / Programming / General, COMPUTERS / Programming / Microsoft
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