Geek sublime: the beauty of code, the code of beauty
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Published:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2014].
Physical Desc:
xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Status:
North Natomas
809 C456 2014
Description
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.
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English
ISBN:
1555976859 :, 9781555976859 :
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233).
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APA Citation (style guide)
Chandra, V. (2014). Geek sublime: the beauty of code, the code of beauty. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Chandra, Vikram. 2014. Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Chandra, Vikram, Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Graywolf Press, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Chandra, Vikram. Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Graywolf Press, 2014.
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