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Dreaming in Code

Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

By Scott Rosenberg

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| Paperback | 9781400082476

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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, axeContinue

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This book should be used in schools to teach what "software development" means.

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Alessandro Iob said on Jun 19, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

This book is extremely important for a software developer. It shows all the mistakes you can do - the guys making Chandler seem to have a knack for reinventing the wheel. And having had a blockbuster software title in the 80's does not make you a genius. Read this book, kids, and see how you can was ... (continue)

This book is extremely important for a software developer. It shows all the mistakes you can do - the guys making Chandler seem to have a knack for reinventing the wheel. And having had a blockbuster software title in the 80's does not make you a genius. Read this book, kids, and see how you can waste countelss hours and dollars to make something really easy - have you ever tried Palm Desktop?

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Lenz said on Jan 22, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

Kind of depressing, but so true

Great book, very interesting. The main topics are many of the technical and not-so technical aspects of software development, explained clearly and in an understandable way, even for non-programmers.
Sometimes reading about the development cycles of "Chandler" is quite exasperating, as the peop ... (continue)

Great book, very interesting. The main topics are many of the technical and not-so technical aspects of software development, explained clearly and in an understandable way, even for non-programmers.
Sometimes reading about the development cycles of "Chandler" is quite exasperating, as the people commit all sorts of errors (as programmers or as humans) while you scream "don't do that" in your head. But while one of the programmers decides for the n-th time to change the "object storage system", you simply know you'd probably make the same assumptions and the same errors...
A realistic insight in software development. As Donald Knuth puts it: "Software is hard."

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Lorenz Cuno Klopfenstein said on Mar 2, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback