Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

Authors: Rosenberg, Scott
Publisher: Crown
BISAC/Subject: TEC009000, BUS070030, COM079000
ISBN: 9780307381446, Related ISBNs: 0307381447, 1400082463, 1400082471, 9780307381446, 9781400082469
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 416,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior,
especially their own. Along the way, we encounter black holes, turtles, snakes, dragons, axe-sharpening, and yak-shaving—and take a guided tour through the theories and methods, both brilliant and misguided, that litter the history of software development, from the famous “mythical man-month” to Extreme Programming. Not just for technophiles but for anyone captivated by the drama of invention, Dreaming in Code offers a window into both the information age and the workings of the human mind.
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