Will Sargent reviewed Dreaming in code by Scott Rosenberg
Review of 'Dreaming in code' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
The best description of a train wreck I've read in a long while.
Hardcover, 416 pages
English language
Published by Crown.
Dreaming in Code
Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
4 stars
(1 review)
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.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects
- Computers And Society
- Software Development
- Computers
- Computers - Languages / Programming
- Computer Books: Languages
- Programming - Software Development
- Computers / Social Aspects / General
- Computer software
- Development
- Computer Books: General