Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty - Couverture souple

Chandra, Vikram

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555976859 ISBN 13 : 9781555976859

Editeur : Graywolf Press, 2014

Synopsis

The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller "Sacred Games" about the surprising overlap between writing and computer coding

Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code?
Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an "Indian Mafia" in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, "Geek Sublime" is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vikram Chandra is the author of three highly acclaimed works of fiction, most recently "Sacred Games," which won the 2006 Hutch Crossword Award. Chandra lives in Oakland, California and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555976859
• ISBN 13: 9781555976859
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible