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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel PundayPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.249kg ISBN: 9780816697021ISBN 10: 0816697027 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 15 December 2015 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Preface 1. My Documents: Remembering the Memex 2. Writing, Work, and Profession 3. Programmer as Writer 4. E-books, Libraries, and Feelies 5. Invention, Patents, and the Technological System 6. Audience Today: Between Literature and Performance Conclusion: Invention, Creativity, and the Teaching of Writing Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviewsIn a world in which the distinction between writing and computing is increasingly blurred, Punday's volume raises some intriguing questions and offers some new ways to look at writing and computing. --CHOICE """Daniel Punday traces the idea—an idea that he shows to be pervasive—that to control computers we typically engage in a sort of writing. This insight informs our understanding of computation in culture and also enriches our notion of writing generally. It should, additionally, help non-programmer humanists see that, since they have learned to write, they can learn to do that specific type of writing that is known as programming.""—Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ""In a world in which the distinction between writing and computing is increasingly blurred, Punday's volume raises some intriguing questions and offers some new ways to look at writing and computing.""—CHOICE" Daniel Punday traces the idea an idea that he shows to be pervasive that to control computers we typically engage in a sort of writing. This insight informs our understanding of computation in culture and also enriches our notion of writing generally. It should, additionally, help non-programmer humanists see that, since they have learned to write, they can learn to do that specific type of writing that is known as programming. Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology* Author InformationDaniel Punday is professor of English at Purdue University Calumet. He is the author of several books, including Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction and Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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