“The programmer personality is someone who has the ability to drive a tremendous sense of joy from an incredible small moment of success”. The type of people who end up being programmers is self-selected by the people who can endure that agony. An interesting explanation is that “The default state of everything that you’re working on is fucking broken. The author blows my mind multiple times when describing how coders are. Nowadays, every single guide to a programming language has the “Hello, World!” how to do a tutorial. The idea came watching a cartoon of a chick coming out of an egg, saying “Hello, World!”. I found out that the first record use of “Hello World!” was in 1972 by Brian Kernighan, a young computer scientist.
We want to understand how today’s world works but first we need to understand who are the people building it, what makes them tick, what’s their personality. The book is divided into 11 chapters, it’s quick to read and guides readers through the undercovered history of programming and a better understanding of programmers.Īs the author states, in a world made of software, programmers are thus among the most quietly influential people on the planet, they are the architects. The book is written by Clive Thompson who from my point of view has done a very good job by putting down in words who coders are, what they do and what’s the culture of code. The reason for picking up this book was that like everybody else I do read a decent amount of books about technical subjects but what about the remaining part of life as a developer? I do want to equip myself with soft skills that complement technical skills, so this is the main reason for choosing this book.
On my way to becoming a well-rounded software developer, I found myself reading Coders (The Making of a New Tribe and Remaking of the World) by Clive Thompson. If you want to create a more humanistic digital world, read this book to get started” - Sherry Turkle, professor at MIT. “Code shapes coders, and coders shape the code that changes how we think, every day of our lives.
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