Computing: A Human Activity

by Peter Naur

  1. Understanding the Human Activity of Computing
    1. The Place of Programming in a World of Problems, Tools and People (1965), 1
      1. Introduction, 1
      2. Problems, Tools and People, 2
      3. Programming Languages, 3
      4. Machine Characteristics, 4
      5. List Processing, 5
      6. COBOL, 6
      7. ALGOl and Common Programming Languages, 6
    2. Data and Their Applications (1974), 9
      1. Data and What They Represent, 9
      2. Data Processes and Models, 11
      3. Data Recognition and Context, 13
      4. Data Representions, 13
      5. Numbers and Numerals, 15
      6. Data Conversions, 16
      7. Data Processing, 17
      8. A Basic Principle of Data Science, 18
      9. Limitations of Data Processing, 19
      10. Summary of the Chapter, 20
      11. Exercises, 21

APA Citation: Naur, P. (1992). Computing, a human activity. New York : Reading, Mass.: ACM Press.