As the first book about software culture, this book discusses software
culture from three perspectives including historical perspective, the
classification of software and software applications. This book takes
credit from the view of science and technology development. It analyzed
scientific innovations and the social areas promoted following the
growth of technology. And according to the fact that information helps
to build human cultural form, we proposed the concept and researching
method of software culture. The aim of writing this book is to
strengthen the connection between software and culture, to replenish
knowledge system in the subject of software engineering, and to
establish a new area of study that is the culture of software.