in Chief: Sanjiva Prasad, IIT Delhi
Area Editor: Thomas Misa, University of Minnesota
This book was typeset in Arnhem Pro 10/14 and Flama using LuaTEX.
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Contents
Chapter 1How Important is Programming?
1.7A New History of Personal Computing
Chapter 2Four Computing Mythologies
2.1The NATO Conference on Software Engineering
2.4The Counterculture Movement
2.5Everything is Deeply Intertwingled
2.6The Birth of Computer Science
Chapter 3FORTRAN, Logo, and the Tower of Babel
3.1Solving Problems with Computers
3.8Logo as a Model for Code Nation
Chapter 4Advocating Computer Literacy
4.1Robert Albrecht and the Popularization of the Movement
4.5Arthur Luehrmann and the Computer Literacy Debate
4.7Apple Computer’s Education Agenda
4.8Applications over Languages
Chapter 5Four Million BASIC Programmers
5.6Microsoft Press and Learn BASIC Now
5.9Innovative Programming Primers
