Programming as if People Mattered: Friendly Programs, Software Engineering, and Other Noble Delusions

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Through a set of lively anecdotes and essays, Nathaniel Borenstein traces the divergence between the fields of software engineering and user-centered software design, and attempts to reconcile the needs of people in both camps. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make avai

"This book is very easy to read, and is so entertaining that it is hard to put down... An excellent book, and a must-read for software professionals."--Choice "The book provides a stimulating read, with a fair sprinkling of controversial opinions from which intelligent readers ... will draw their own conclusions."--J. Dodd, Information and Science Technology "This book's great glory is the author's implicit, but pervasive, notion that the human interface extends through software; and that programs are just ways that people tell computers what they should be doing... [A] book filled with points to think about well before you start coding menus or screens."--UnixWorld "A witty look at the foibles of software engineering, based on real examples... This voice of experience offers a good dose of humility to arrogant young programmers."--American Mathematical Monthly