![]() ![]() Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore With his trademark clarity and insight, Clive Thompson gives us an unparalleled vista into the mind-set and culture of programmers, the often-invisible architects and legislators of the digital age. Coders is an engrossing, deeply clued-in ethnography, and it's also a book about power, a new kind: where it comes from, how it feels to wield it, who gets to try - and how all that is changing. When that "anywhere" is the realm of the programmers, the pleasure takes on extra ballast. ![]() * Bookseller * It's a delight to follow Clive Thompson's roving, rollicking mind anywhere. There are strings of engaging insights into the anthropology of computer programmers. coding was something of a foggy concept to me. ![]() ![]() * Philadelphia Inquirer * Before I read this brilliantly accessible book. "If we want to understand how today's world works," Thompson writes in his introduction, "we ought to understand something about coders." His book. Fun to read, this book knows its stuff and makes it fun to learn. An avalanche of profiles, stories, quips, and anecdotes in this beautifully reported book returns us constantly to people, their stories, their hopes and thrills and disappointments. ![]()
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