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Dreaming in Code|Scott Rosenberg

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

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Overview

Our civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts. To find out why it's so hard to bend computers to our will, Scott Rosenberg spent three years following a team of maverick software developers--led by Lotus 1-2-3 creator Mitch Kapor--designing a novel personal information manager meant to challenge market leader Microsoft Outlook. Their story takes us through a maze of abrupt
dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they wrestle not only with the abstraction of code, but with the unpredictability of human behavior-- especially their own.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781400082476
  • ISBN-10: 1400082471
  • Publisher: Crown Currency
  • Publish Date: February 2008
  • Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.8 pounds
  • Page Count: 416

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