Hi SIGCISers,

I got some great tips for my course that I mentioned on the list yesterday. Thanks to the SIGCISers who responded. The results are below. 

On a random note, a few people couldn't load my website, ie, they time out. For awhile I've had this problem that folks at certain locations (usually from home) can't get my webpage to load. As far as I can tell, it does not correlate to OS, browser, platform, etc, because if these folks change locations then they can load it. If anyone out there is tech savvy and has a tip on what the problem might be, I'd welcome your input. Again, my new address is geoghegb@cms.hu-berlin.de.


Thanks again for the great tips!
-bernie


More texts on Software etc:

Good References

Course on software by Michael Mahoney: http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/h598/h598s03.html

Course on software and networks by Chris Kelty:

http://kelty.org/or/classes/189v/doku.php


Useful Turing Lectures

-The Humble Programmer by Dijkstra

-Iverson, Notation as a tool of thought

-Bachman, The programmer as navigator

-Knuth, Computer programming as an art

-Newell and Simon, Completer Science as Emprical Inquiry: Symbols and Search


Secondary Sources

-Michael Mahoney, What Makes the History of Software Hard

-Mahoney, “Finding a History for Software Engineering”

-Mindell, “Programs and People” in Digital Apollo

-Kelty, Logical Instruments

Hagen, “The Style of Sources: Remarks on the Theory and History of Programming

Languages” [“Der Stil der Sourcen: Anmerkungen zur Theorie und Geschichte der Programmiersprachen.”]

-Jon Agar, The Government Machine

-Bardini, Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing

-History of Programing Languages (2 vols.)

Philip Kraft, Programmers and Managers: The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States?

David Noble, Forces of Production or

Shoshanna Zuboff, Work in the Age of the Smart Machine

Foote and Yodler, “Big Ball of Mud” http://www.laputan.org/mud/

Richard Gabriel, misc, http://www.dreamsongs.com/

-Lucy Suchman, Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and situated actions (2nd edition). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/Lucy-Suchman/

misc, by Horst Völz

Marino, “Critical Code Studies” http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/codology/

Parikka, “Archive Dynamics: Software Culture and Digital Heritage” in What is Media Archaeology

Naur, Pluralism in Software Engineering (critique of McCarthy, Dijkstra-style programming)


Regarding gender, see work by performance artist Micha Cardenas

Regarding code and politics, see Transborder Immigrant Tool, written by Robert Dominguez and a reading thereof by Marino (Reading the Transborder Immigrant Tool)