Who’s creating them? Understanding coders and why how they think is changing how we live. Fun to read, this book knows its stuff and makes it fun to learn.(Pixabay) This article is more than 4 years old.Īlgorithms influence everything we do now. * Bookseller *Īn avalanche of profiles, stories, quips, and anecdotes in this beautifully reported book returns us constantly to people, their stories, their hopes and thrills and disappointments. There are strings of engaging insights into the anthropology of computer programmers. coding was something of a foggy concept to me. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstoreīefore I read this brilliantly accessible book. Steven Johnson, author of How We Got to NowĬoders is an engrossing, deeply clued-in ethnography, and it's also a book about power, a new kind: where it comes from, how it feels to wield it, who gets to try - and how all that is changing. With his trademark clarity and insight, Thompson gives us an unparalleled vista into the mind-set and culture of programmers, the often-invisible architects and legislators of the digital age. he removes the mystery and brings it into the legible world for the rest of us to debate. By breaking down what the actual world of coding looks like. outlines different personality traits, their history and cultural touchstones. David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
And, in this masterful book, he illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.
Many books have covered this territory, but Coders is bang up to date in a fast-moving world. Thompson is an excellent writer and his subjects are themselves gripping. illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.'ĭavid Grann, author of The Lost City of Zįascinating. removes the mystery and brings it into the legible world for the rest of us to debate.' 'By breaking down what the actual world of coding looks like. With Coders, Thompson offers a crucial insight into the heart of the machine. To understand the world today, we need to understand code and its consequences. Along the way, Thompson ponders the morality and politics of code, including its implications for civic life and the economy, and unpacks the surprising history of the field, beginning with the first coders - brilliant and pioneering women, who were later written out of history. In Coders, acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson offers an illuminating reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, asking who they are, how they think, and what should give us pause.
From revolution on Twitter to romance on Tinder, we live in a world constructed of code - and coders are the ones who built it for us.
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