> Has anyone read Vikram Chandra's "Geek Sublime"? > http://www.amazon.com/Geek-Sublime-The-Beauty-Code/dp/1555976859/ Any > thoughts? >
I began reading it yesterday and am about halfway through. It's a freewheeling look at the history, folklore, craft and anthropology of computer programming, without being too technical -- there's a chapter on logic gates and the basics of boolean algebra that might give a layman pause, but even that chapter is not very dense. I'd recommend it to anyone who's interested in programming, whether you dabble in it for pleasure, write a few Excel macros occasionally, or program as a profession. I wish I'd had it as a textbook when I first got into programming. The logic gates built in Lego[1] referenced in chapter 3 are super-cool. -- Hari [1] http://randomwraith.com/lego.html
