Description
Product ID: | 9781400082476 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Dreaming in Code |
Subtitle: | Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software |
Authors: | Author: Scott Rosenberg |
Page Count: | 416 |
Subjects: | Fantasy, Fantasy |
Description: | 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. |
Imprint Name: | Three Rivers Press |
Publisher Name: | Random House USA Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2008-02-26 |