The Software Arts

by Warren Sack

An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software's evolution.

In The Software Arts, Warren Sack offers an alternative history of computing that places the arts at the very center of software's evolution. Tracing the origins of software to eighteenth-century French encyclopedists' step-by-step descriptions of how things were made in the workshops of artists and artisans, Sack shows that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262039702
• ISBN13: 9780262039703
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.1"