Software studies [[electronic resource] ] : a lexicon / / edited by Matthew Fuller

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Disciplina: 005.1
• Soggetto topico: Computer software; Computers and civilization; Programming languages (Electronic computers) - Lexicography; Technology and the arts
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FullerMatthew
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-311) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Algorithm; Analog; Button; Class Library; Code; Codecs; Computing Power; Concurrent Versions System; Copy; Data Visualization; Elegance; Ethnocomputing; Function; Glitch; Import / Export; Information; Intelligence; Interaction; Interface; Internationalization; Interrupt; Language; Lists; Loop; Memory; Obfuscated Code; Object Orientation; Perl; Pixel; Preferences; Programmability; Sonic Algorithm; Source Code; System Event Sounds; Text Virus; Timeline (sonic); Variable; Weird Languages; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software. Experts from a range of disciplines each take a key topic in software and the understanding of software, such as algorithms and logical structures.
• Titolo autorizzato: Software studies
• ISBN: 1-282-10020-3; 9786612100208; 0-262-27334-9; 1-4356-4787-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451711903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Leonardo books.