Description: The art of writing creatively about the world of software-not the type that's tiresome and ponderous, but the kind that is inspiring even as it offers substantial value and learning-has languished for far too long. Fear not. This book is here to set things straight. At the heart of this book-and presented in the form of eight "postcards" which the author writes and dispatches to you from a fabled software island-is the undeniable message that the craft of programming is at once creative and disciplined.Writing code and, just as importantly, writing about code, ought to go hand-in-hand. One informs the other inescapably: Think of Dutch artist M. C. Escher's beguilingly memorable "Drawing Hands" lithograph. We need to put the fun back in our tech pursuits. And the story which aims to show how this can be achieved, by way of example, simply could not remain sealed under lock any longer.If the past seven years of writing and publishing essays online (at the ProgrammingDigressions blog) has taught the author anything, it is this: Readers just like you are thirsty for a draft from the fountain that is at once informed by and suffused with the inescapable partnership-however inscrutable to the untrained eye it may be-which actively remains at play during myriad tech pursuits, writing code notably among them. Now that story has been unsealed and is being told by way of the eight "postcards" which make up the book.
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Title: Postcards From The Software Island: Essays At The Cusp Of Ideas,
Weight: 417
EAN: 9798711893134
ISBN-10: 9798711893134
Date of Publication: 2021-02
Place of Publication: 2021-02
Book Series: Independently Published
Genre: COMPUTERS / Virtual & Augmented Reality
Narrative Type: N/A
Features: N/A
Intended Audience: N/A
Ex Libris: No
Editor: N/A
Edition: N/A
Pagination: 216
Dimensions: 900x600
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: The Programming Imagination
Author: Akram Ahmad
Publication Name: Postcards from the Software Island: Essays at the Cusp of Ideas, Programming, and Culture
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Subject: Computer Science
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 295 g
Number of Pages: 216 Pages