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Programming as if People Mattered:
Friendly Programs, Software Engineering, and Other Noble Delusions
Nathaniel S. Borenstein

Paper | 1994 | This edition is out of print | ISBN13: 978-0-691-03763-9
200 pp. | 6 x 9
Cloth | 1991 | This edition is out of print | ISBN13: 978-0-691-08752-8
208 pp.

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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.

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"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

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