Copeland on Weinberg
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Copeland on Weinberg
Summary:
Lee Copeland and Jerry Weinberg have crossed paths—both on page and in person—many times over the years. Here, Lee reflects on some of those meetings and their valuable lessons.
I first “met” Jerry Weinberg in 1971 through his book The Psychology of Computer Programming. [1] There had never been a book like it. In the preface, Jerry wrote, “This book has only one major purpose—to trigger the beginning of a new field of study of computer programming as a human activity, or, in short, the psychology of computer programming
Until that time, the focus of programming was on hardware and software, not the people involved in doing the work.
