{"product_id":"the-software-arts-software-studies","title":"The Software Arts (Software Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of softwares evolution. In The Software Arts  Warren Sack offers an alternative history of computing that places the arts at the very center of softwares 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 programming languages are the offspring of an effort to describe the mechanical arts in the language of the liberal arts. Sack offers a reading of the texts of computingcode  algorithms  and technical papersthat emphasizes continuity between prose and programs. He translates concepts and categories from the liberal and mechanical artsincluding logic  rhetoric  grammar  learning  algorithm  language  and simulationinto terms of computer science and then considers their further translation into popular culture  where they circulate as forms of digital life. He considers  among other topics  the arithmetization of knowledge that presaged digitization; todays multitude of logics; the history of demonstration  from deduction to newer forms of persuasion; and the post-Chomsky absence of meaning in grammar. With The Software Arts  Sack invites artists and humanists to see how their ideas are at the root of software and invites computer scientists to envision themselves as artists and humanists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986207338549,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262039702","price":58.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262039703.jpg?v=1770892223","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-software-arts-software-studies","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}