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Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
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ISBN13: 9781555976859
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Sep 2 2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award
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?
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