Coders at Work

Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a brand-new companion volume to Apress?s highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words ?at work? suggest, Peter Seibel focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of programming, while revealing much more, like how they became great programmers, how they recognize programming talent in others, and what kinds of problems they find most interesting.

Hundreds of people have suggested names of programmers to interview on the Coders at Work web site: www.codersatwork.com. The complete list was 284 names. Having digested everyone?s feedback, we selected 15 folks who?ve been kind enough to agree to be interviewed:

Frances Allen: Pioneer in optimizing compilers, first woman to win the Turing Award (2006) and first female IBM fellow
Joe Armstrong: Inventor of Erlang
Joshua Bloch: Author of the Java collections framework, now at Google
Bernie Cosell: One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMPs and a master debugger
Douglas Crockford: JSON founder, JavaScript architect at Yahoo!
L. Peter Deutsch: Author of Ghostscript, implementer of Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1
Brendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript, CTO of the Mozilla Corporation
Brad Fitzpatrick: Writer of LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, and Perlbal
Dan Ingalls: Smalltalk implementor and designer
Simon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler
Donald Knuth: Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX
Peter Norvig: Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI
Guy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five, currently working on Fortress
Ken Thompson: Inventor of UNIX
Jamie Zawinski: Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker

What you?ll learn

How the best programmers in the world do their job

Who is this book for?

Programmers interested in the point of view of leaders in the field. Programmers looking for approaches that work for some of these outstanding programmers.

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-21-2009; Rare look at the culture that creates great code; There are three kinds of books about any technical subject. The first teach you the methods - how do you do X or Y - this are the Learn Z in 24 hours books. Second are the conventions books that teach best practices, lessons learned,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-20-2009; Excellent Pleasure Reading...with insights; *Spoiler*: The last bit of the last sentence of the last interview in this book is "don't only read the people who code like you."At least one reviewer has complained that this title didn't "detail" how these programmers worked and how...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-19-2009; By programmers, for programmers; As a book, Coders at Work is in some ways not all that great. As a collection of the thoughts and opinions of a wide range of real programmers on what, how, and why they do what they do, it is a treasure.I have to say that the first...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-18-2009; Get to know your heroes; I wanted to write a review earlier, but when I reopened the book to refresh my memory I couldn't put it down again.I've always felt that the best way to improve as a programmer is to figure out whose work you admire the most and try to...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-21-2009; Rare look at the culture that creates great code; There are three kinds of books about any technical subject. The first teach you the methods - how do you do X or Y - this are the Learn Z in 24 hours books. Second are the conventions books that teach best practices, lessons learned,...; read full review | report as inappropriate