Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and
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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.
Author: Scott Rosenberg
Format: Paperback, 416 pages, 132mm x 203mm, 335 g
Published: 2008, Random House USA Inc, United States
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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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.
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and