Reminiscent of Weinberg's 1971 "Psychology of Computer Programming", which discusses programming as a human activity. This is from chapter 1: "Programming is,

Reminiscent of Weinberg's 1971 "Psychology of Computer Programming", which discusses programming as a human activity. This is from chapter 1: "Programming is, among other things, a kind of writing. One way to learn writing is to write, but in all other forms of writing, one also reads. We read examples—both good and bad—to facilitate learning. But how many programmers learn to write programs by reading programs?" He goes on to discuss programming as an individual and social activity, with the principle that it's a human activity at root.