How Long to Read Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America

How Long Does it Take to Read Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 50 minutes to read Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America by Michael J. Halvorson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America?

Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America by Michael J. Halvorson is 404 pages long, and a total of 102,616 words.

This makes it 136% the length of the average book. It also has 125% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 20 minutes to read Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America aloud.

What Reading Level is Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America?

Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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