Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

By: Scott Rosenberg

Published January 16th 2007 by Crown Publishing, NY

Category: Business

Pages: 416 pages

ISBN: 9781400082469

Description:
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-shavingÑand take a guided tour through the theories and methods, both brilliant and misguided, that litter the history of software development, from the famous Ômythical man-monthÕ 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.