The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering (Paperback)

Capers Jones

  • 出版商: Addison Wesley
  • 出版日期: 2013-12-06
  • 售價: $1,640
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,558
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 496
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0321903420
  • ISBN-13: 9780321903426
  • 相關分類: 軟體工程
  • 海外代購書籍(需單獨結帳)

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“Capers Jones has accumulated the most comprehensive data on every aspect of software engineering, and has performed the most scientific analysis on this data. Now, Capers performs yet another invaluable service to our industry, by documenting, for the first time, its long and fascinating history. Capers’ new book is a must-read for every software engineering student and information technology professional.”

— From the Foreword by Tony Salvaggio, CEO and president, Computer Aid, Inc.

 

 

Software engineering is one of the world’s most exciting and important fields. Now, pioneering practitioner Capers Jones has written the definitive history of this world-changing industry. Drawing on several decades as a leading researcher and innovator, he illuminates the field’s broad sweep of progress and its many eras of invention. He assesses the immense impact of software engineering on society, and previews its even more remarkable future. Decade by decade, Jones examines trends, companies, winners, losers, new technologies, productivity/quality issues, methods, tools, languages, risks, and more. He reviews key inventions, estimates industry growth, and addresses “mysteries” such as why programming languages gain and lose popularity. Inspired by Paul Starr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Jones’ new book is a tour de force—and compelling reading for everyone who wants to understand how software became what it is today.

 

COVERAGE INCLUDES

• The human need to compute: from ancient times to the modern era

• Foundations of computing: Alan Turing, Konrad Zuse, and World War II

• Big business, big defense, big systems: IBM, mainframes, and COBOL

• A concise history of minicomputers and microcomputers: the birth of Apple and Microsoft

• The PC era: DOS, Windows, and the rise of commercial software

• Innovations in writing and managing code: structured development, objects, agile, and more

• The birth and explosion of the Internet and the World Wide Web

• The growing challenges of legacy system maintenance and support

• Emerging innovations, from wearables to intelligent agents to quantum computing

• Cybercrime, cyberwarfare, and large-scale software failure

 

商品描述(中文翻譯)

Capers Jones累積了關於軟體工程各個方面的最全面的數據,並對這些數據進行了最科學的分析。現在,Capers通過首次記錄其悠久而迷人的歷史,為我們的行業提供了另一項寶貴的服務。Capers的新書是每個軟體工程學生和資訊技術專業人士必讀的書籍。

——Tony Salvaggio(Computer Aid, Inc.的首席執行官兼總裁)的前言

軟體工程是世界上最令人興奮和重要的領域之一。現在,開創性的實踐者Capers Jones撰寫了這個改變世界的行業的權威歷史。他借助幾十年的領先研究和創新,闡明了這個領域的廣泛進展和許多發明的時代。他評估了軟體工程對社會的巨大影響,並預覽了其更加卓越的未來。Jones逐十年地檢視趨勢、公司、贏家、輸家、新技術、生產力/質量問題、方法、工具、語言、風險等等。他回顧了關鍵的發明,估計了行業的增長,並解釋了“謎團”,例如為什麼編程語言會流行和失去流行。受到Paul Starr的普利策獎獲獎作品《美國醫學的社會轉型》的啟發,Jones的新書是一部力作,對於每個想要了解軟體如何成為今天的樣子的人來說,是引人入勝的閱讀材料。

內容包括:

• 從古代到現代的人類計算需求

• 計算的基礎:Alan Turing、Konrad Zuse和二戰

• 大企業、大防禦、大系統:IBM、大型機和COBOL

• 迷你計算機和微型計算機的簡明歷史:Apple和Microsoft的誕生

• 個人電腦時代:DOS、Windows和商業軟體的崛起

• 編寫和管理代碼的創新:結構化開發、對象、敏捷等等

• 互聯網和萬維網的誕生和爆發

• 面臨的遺產系統維護和支援的挑戰

• 新興創新,從可穿戴設備到智能代理到量子計算

• 網絡犯罪、網絡戰爭和大規模軟體故障