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Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
Crown
January 2007
On Sale: January 16, 2007
416 pages ISBN: 1400082463 EAN: 9781400082469 Hardcover
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Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior, especially their own. Along the way, we encounter black holes, turtles, snakes, dragons, axe-sharpening, and yak-shavingβand take a guided tour through the theories and methods, both brilliant and misguided, that litter the history of software development, from the famous βmythical man-monthβ to Extreme Programming. Not just for technophiles but for anyone captivated by the drama of invention, Dreaming in Code offers a window into both the information age and the workings of the human mind.
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