Code Nation. Michael J. Halvorson

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rel="nofollow" href="#litres_trial_promo">PART IIHOBBYIST AND HACKER CULTURES

       Chapter 6Power Users, Tinkerers, and Gurus

       6.1Computing Terminology

       6.2Tinkering with Personal Computers

       6.3Van Wolverton and Batch Files

       6.4The DOS for Dummies Phenomenon

       6.5The Economic Impact of Personal Computers

       6.6Cary Lu Introduces the Macintosh

       6.7The Waite Group’s Macintosh Primers

       6.8The Maturing Mac Platform

       Chapter 7Hackers and Cyberpunks

       7.1Bill Landreth and 1980s Hacker Culture

       7.2Jude Milhon: From Civil Rights Activist to Cyberpunk

       7.3Mondo 2000 and The Cyberpunk Handbook

       7.4Cypherpunks and Cryptography

       Chapter 8Computer Magazines and Historical Research

       8.1Magazines and a Popular Culture of Computing

       8.2Letters from the Programming Community

       8.3New PC Users

       8.4Power Users

       8.5Advanced Hobbyists

       8.6Professional Programmers

       8.7New Approaches to Historical Research

       PART IIIPROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMING CULTURES

       Chapter 9Developing for MS-DOS: Authors and Entrepreneurs

       9.1New Platforms for Commercial Software

       9.2Inside the IBM PC with Peter Norton

       9.3Borland’s Turbo Pascal

       9.4Ray Duncan’s Advanced MS-DOS

       9.5The MS-DOS Encyclopedia

       9.6MS-DOS Sample Code

       9.7Technology Diffusion

       Chapter 10C Programming Nation: From Tiny C to Microsoft Windows

       10.1The C Language

       10.2Learning C on Personal Computers

       10.3Academic and Professional Resources

       10.4C Programming for the People

       10.5Charles Petzold’s Programming Windows

       10.6On Complexity

       Chapter 11“Evangelism is sales done right”: PCs and Commercial Programming Culture

       11.1The Macintosh Way

       11.2The West Coast Computer Faire

       11.3COMDEX and the Trade Show Movement

       11.4The Trouble with Self-taught Programmers

       11.5Software Engineering for the People

       11.6Professional and Enterprise Development Systems

       11.7Commercialization

       Afterword: Programming in the Internet Age

       Author’s Biography

       Index

      Acknowledgments

      I would like to thank the many friends, colleagues, and supporting institutions that have helped me bring this book to you. As all historians know, writers and researchers have many debts, and only some of them are repaid in the acknowledgments. As I complete this project, I am especially aware of the creative people and research institutions that have supported the Code Nation project over the past 5 years. I am also deeply aware of the many teachers and mentors that I have had the privilege to work with in a long career related to computing and higher

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