Coders : who they are, what they think and how they are changing our world
Material type: TextPublication details: London Picador 2019Description: 436 pISBN: 9781529018998Subject(s): Computer programmers Computer programming--Social aspects Computer programming--Psychological aspects Information technology--Social aspectsDDC classification: 005.1092 Summary: From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson, a brilliant and immersive study of one the most powerful tribes in the world today, computer programmers - where they come from, how they think, what makes for greatness in their world, and what should give us pause. Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Uber's cars flocking the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of computer code. Coders - software programmers - are the people who built it for us. And yet their worlds and minds are little known to outsiders. In Coders, Wired columnist Clive Thompson presents a brilliantly original anthropological reckoning with the most influential tribe in today's world, interrogating who they are, how they think, what they value, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause. One of the most prominent journalists writing on technology today, Clive Thompson takes us into the minds of coders, the most quietly influential people on the planet, in a journey into the heart of the machine - and the men and women who made it.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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005.1068 HUG/S Software project management | 005.10685 BAS/S software quality assurance, testing and metrics | 005.10685 NIN/S Software quality assurance : principles and practice for the new paradigm | 005.1092 THO/C Coders : who they are, what they think and how they are changing our world | 005.11 BRA/O Object-oriented analysis, design and implementation : an integrated approach | 005.11 MAI/F Functional Data Structures in R :advanced statistical programming in R | 005.117 BAR/O Object-oriented design with UML and Java |
From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson, a brilliant and immersive study of one the most powerful tribes in the world today, computer programmers - where they come from, how they think, what makes for greatness in their world, and what should give us pause. Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Uber's cars flocking the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of computer code. Coders - software programmers - are the people who built it for us. And yet their worlds and minds are little known to outsiders. In Coders, Wired columnist Clive Thompson presents a brilliantly original anthropological reckoning with the most influential tribe in today's world, interrogating who they are, how they think, what they value, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause. One of the most prominent journalists writing on technology today, Clive Thompson takes us into the minds of coders, the most quietly influential people on the planet, in a journey into the heart of the machine - and the men and women who made it.
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