Code Nation explores the rise of software development as a social,
cultural, and technical phenomenon in American history. The
movement germinated in government and university labs during the
1950s, gained momentum through corporate and counterculture
experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, and became a broad-based
computer literacy movement in the 1980s. As personal computing came
to the fore, learning to program was transformed by a groundswell
of popular enthusiasm, exciting new platforms, and an array of
commercial practices that have been further amplified by
distributed computing and the Internet. The resulting society can
be depicted as a "Code Nation"-a globally-connected world that is
saturated with computer technology and enchanted by software and
its creation. Code Nation is a new history of personal computing
that emphasizes the technical and business challenges that software
developers faced when building applications for CP/M, MS-DOS, UNIX,
Microsoft Windows, the Apple Macintosh, and other emerging
platforms. It is a popular history of computing that explores the
experiences of novice computer users, tinkerers, hackers, and power
users, as well as the ideals and aspirations of leading computer
scientists, engineers, educators, and entrepreneurs. Computer book
and magazine publishers also played important, if overlooked, roles
in the diffusion of new technical skills, and this book highlights
their creative work and influence. Code Nation offers a
"behind-the-scenes" look at application and operating-system
programming practices, the diversity of historic computer
languages, the rise of user communities, early attempts to market
PC software, and the origins of "enterprise" computing systems.
Code samples and over 80 historic photographs support the text. The
book concludes with an assessment of contemporary efforts to teach
computational thinking to young people.
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