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Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Vikram Chandra (Paperback / softback, 2014)

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The nfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer codingVikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a velist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and techlogy. 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 techlogy story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
1555976859
ISBN-13
9781555976859
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209216463

Product Key Features

Author
Vikram Chandra
Format
Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Literary

Additional Product Features

Content Note
Black & White Illustrations, Black & White Line Drawings, Figures
Author Biography
Vikram Chandra is the author of three highly acclaimed works of fiction, most recently Sacred Games, which won the 2006 Hutch Crossword Award. Chandra lives in Oakland, California and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
Date of Publication
02/09/2014
Country of Publication
United States

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