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Software Designers in Action
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Software Designers in Action

by Marian Petre, Andre Van Der Hoek
September 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
452 pages
17h 21m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 18
The Craft of Design
Conversation
Alan F. Blackwell
University of Cambridge
18.1 INTRODUCTION
Soware design is a representational cra. By “representational,” I mean that the purpose of
soware designs is communicative—soware designs are information structures encoded
in representational form, to be read by authors, collaborators, users, and machines. is
much is uncontroversial. e word “cra,” however, is less oen used in respect of soware
design. On the contrary, it has frequently been suggested that cras constitute primitive
modes of professional practice, to be superseded by the planned, ma ...
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ISBN: 9781466501096