Programming on Purpose II: Essays on Software People - Softcover

Plauger, P. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0133281051 ISBN 13: 9780133281057

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1993

Synopsis

P.J. Plauger's monthly column "Programming on Purpose" has been entertaining readers of Computer Language magazine for years. He writes as readily on how to be a software entrepreneur as he does on the innards of floating-point anthmetic or the turbulent world of software design methodologies. By popular demand, he has gathered six and a half years' output into several collections, each with a common theme.
Essays on Software People explores the often-neglected human side of the computer software business. Here you will learn how to be really ingenious, and how to protect the fruits of your ingenuity, how to mix technology with politics, and how not to write shelfware. The budding entrepreneur will find pragmatic advice on dealing with everyone from customers to employees to venture capitalists. Plauger's style is clear without being simplistic, reducing complex themes to bite-size chunks.

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From the Publisher

This volume offers a collection of essays drawn from Plauger's popular monthly column, "Programming on Purpose," in Computer Language magazine. Volume II, Essays on Software People, explores the often neglected human side of the computer software business and offers lots of useful advice to software writers for surviving in the business world. KEY TOPICS: Focusing throughout on people-related matters -- from business ethics to pragmatics -- Plauger shows software writers how to be really ingenious, how to protect the fruits of their ingenuity, how to mix technology with politics, how NOT to write shelfware, and how to deal with everyone -- from customers to employees to venture capitalists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0133281051
• ISBN 13: 9780133281057
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224