- Foreword by Mihai Nadin
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A naive algorithmic exercise
- 3 Sign and semiosis
- 4 The algorithmic sign
- 5 Computing systems as signs
- 6 A brief history of semiotic approaches to computing
- 7 What computers do: computing as semiosis
- 8 What programmers do: programming as semiosis
- 8.1 The designer’s interpretant
- 8.2 Revisiting the naive exercise
- 8.3 The pragmatic triangle: change, context, and effect
- 8.4 Nine fundamental semiotic processes
- 8.5 Signs that change the physical world
- 9 What users do: interacting as semiosis
- 9.1 Using a software system
- 9.2 Analyzing the immediate object
- 9.3 Interactive styles of software systems
- 10 Topics in computing science
- 10.1 Computer architecture: history and semiosis
- 10.2 Bootstrapping
- 10.3 The multivoicedness of computer systems
- 10.4 Types of signs in programming
- 10.5 Language types
- 10.6 Modeling
- 10.7 Things and signs
- 10.8 Reification
- 10.9 Towards a semiotic algebra
- 11 Conclusion
- List of figures
- References
- Index