Geek Sublime Geek Sublime

Geek Sublime

The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2014
September 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Graywolf Press
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
8.7
MB

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