https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Computer-Programming-Silve...
This is an excellent book.
Ask HN: What are some good peer-reviewed papers on psychology of programming?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some good peer-reviewed papers on psychology of programming?
#12The answer is "Yes" and Google is your friend here. Highly relevant queries with high quality top hits are: [software engineering research] [psychology of programming] [empirical research on computer language productivity] [empirical research on programming methodology effectiveness]
also using Google Scholar! Just be sure to make sure on [x] Peer Reviewed
Re: Ask HN: What are some good peer-reviewed papers on psychology of programming?
#13https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Computer-Programming-Silve...
This is the 'Classic' in the field, as I believe it was the first book that talked about the 'human' side of software/programming. Although the references are quite dated in every way we do software engineering today in specific, the general principles remain.
Incidentally, Weinberg is a prolific author. https://goo.gl/Erp84w I especially like his General Systems Thinking.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good peer-reviewed papers on psychology of programming?
#14https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Computer-Programming-Silve...
This is the 'Classic' in the field, as I believe it was the first book that talked about the 'human' side of software/programming. Although the references are quite dated in every way we do software engineering today in specific, the general principles remain. Incidentally, Weinberg is a prolific author. https://goo.gl/Erp84w I especially like his General Systems Thinking.
Interesting that he was a systems theory guy. My dad was a civil/mechanical engineer and was way into systems theory in the 60s and 70s. The idea, from what I've gathered, is to apply an engineer's toolkit to natural / social science problems. I've got a couple of his old (way out of print) books on systems theory and they're fascinatingly relevant to software development -- particularly for big complex distributed systems. They had to deal with poorly specified problems, emergent behavior, "fuzzy" logic, failure, etc. All problems you face in a real complex software system. These ideas don't get enough press.
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