Software Development and Reality Construction

by Floyd, Christiane; Zullighoven, Heinz; Budde, Reinhard; Keil-Slawik, Reinhard; Weiler-kuhn, C.

• ISBN13: 9783642768194
• ISBN10: 3642768199
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-16
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book takes up a variety of themes relating to humanquestions in computer science. The main topics addressedare:- The relationship between human beings and computers,- Software development as a human activity,- The use of computer programs in the human world,- The nature of computer science as a scientific discipline.Contributions by 33 authors belonging to differentscientific disciplines are assembled to form a coherentwhole. Some authors reflect on their own professionalpractice in computer science and system design. Others startfrom approaches developed in the humanities and the socialsciences for understanding human learning and creativity,individual and cooperative work, and the interrelationbetween technology and organizations. Drawing on differentphilosophical traditions, they discuss the nature ofsoftware development and use as social processes in which weplay an active role in constituting what we hold for real.The book will provide readers with theoretical foundationsand a constructive orientation for practice in science anddesign.