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You can read the excerpt or find out more about me. Thanks for visiting this site for Dreaming in Code. Why is good software so hard to make? Since no one seems to have a definitive answer even now, at the start of the twenty-first century, fifty years deep into the computer era, I offer, by way of exploration, the tale of the making of one piece of software - a story about a group of people setting their shoulders once more to the boulder of code and heaving it up the hill, stymied by obstacles old and new, struggling to make something useful and rich and lasting.

So while I hope that programmers will enjoy this work, it is meant equally or more for the rest of us. Books by Scott Rosenberg Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software 9781400082476 Three Rivers. And if my research had uncovered some previously unknown innovation or fail-safe insight into building better software, I'd be smarter to seek investors, not readers. I wouldn't presume to try to teach the experts. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg This insightful read provides. I'm barely an elementary programmer myself. The shelves of the world are full of how-to books for software developers. Here's the author's note I put at the start of the book: In Dreaming in Code I tell their stories. I spent three years following the work of the Chandler developers as they scaled programming peaks and slogged through software swamps. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts, and the greater our ambitions,ĭreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software sets out to understand why, through the story of one software project - Mitch Kapor's Chandler, an ambitious, open-source effort to rethink the world of e-mail and scheduling. Dynamics of silicone valley tech startupsĪccording to a 2002 National Institute of Standards and Technology study, around 66% all software was delivered significantly late, over budget or was cancelled.Hard to make well.The inherent imperfection of software engineering Buy a cheap copy of Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers.The author does an incredible job of providing a first-hand account of his experience, while using every available opportunity to go on side quests to explore the industry as a whole. Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg is a intimate look at the culture of tech startups and the challenges they encounter.

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