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Geek sublime : the beauty of code, the code of beauty

Chandra, Vikram (author.). Shah, Neil, (narrator.). hoopla digital. (Added Author). Read by Neil Shah. (Cast).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 1494528657 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
ISBN: 9781494528652 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 45 min.)) : digital.
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Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [United States] : Tantor Audio, 2015.
Distributor: Made available through hoopla

Content descriptions

Restrictions on Access Note:	Digital content provided by hoopla.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Neil Shah.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.