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Ξ January 11th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ CCS, books, Java |
Books of Note and Java for n00bies
One of our projects here at CCS will be to mention books that contribute to Critical Code Studies (adding them to our LibraryThing account). Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software offers some strong material history and reflection on development of a specific and open source piece of software, Mitch Kapor’s Chandlor. It gives a glimpse at the shear amount of human and machine activity and conflict surrounding the production of working code, all of which can inform CCS readings.
An excerpt offers one of the already typical moves of CCS, to perform a reading of a “Hello, World” program, especially in a comparative context. Nick Montfort, Michael Mateas, Beth Coleman, and I (among others) have already offered “Hello, World” readings.
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