Item #C101041 Principles of Programming, 1961 IBM Personal Study Program, 12 booklets complete, lacks slipcase. IBM Data Processing Division.

Principles of Programming, 1961 IBM Personal Study Program, 12 booklets complete, lacks slipcase.

IBM NY 1961; 6x9, stapled softcovers, orange cardstock covers with black & orange titles.

Condition: Approximately 334 pages in 12 stapled booklets. all Very Good or better, clean, sound & tight bindings & pages, slight corner curls to some & edgewear at spine ends to some.

Categories: 1960's computers and computing, Biography and Company Histories, Computer Science, Computers and Society, Databooks, Handbooks, Manuals, IBM, Ephemera, Odd Stuff and Miscellaneous, General Histories and References, Human-Computer Interaction, Programming and Programming Languages, Assembly and Machine Language, General Programming, Philosophy of Programming, Technical Journals, Proceedings, Conferences, Miscellaneous, Word Processing, Data Processing

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Booklets illustrated with diagrams, flowcharts, some photographs of old equipment. Individual titles include -- The Nature of Data Processing; Introduction to Computing Equipment; Coding Fundamentals; Symbolic Programming; Branching; Address Modification and Loops; Miscellaneous Operations; Magnetic Tape Operations; Random Access File Storage; Planning and Installing a Computer Application; Additional Programming Methods; Contents, Reference Data and Index

Each lesson goes into some detail, last section contains answers to selected exercises, a glossary of terms, a bibliography, cumulative index for the whole set of 12. Particularly of interest is the IBM 1401 Instructions with symbolic programming system mnemonics; autocoder operation codes, card and computer character codes, instruction timing data, machine configuration assumed in text, etc..