{"product_id":"9781430219484","title":"Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCoders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eSeibel, Peter\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Seibel\u003c\/strong\u003e interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in \u003cem\u003eCoders at Work\u003c\/em\u003e, offering a companion volume to Apress’s highly acclaimed best-seller \u003cem\u003eFounders at Work\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHundreds of people have suggested names of programmers to interview on the \u003cem\u003eCoders at Work\u003c\/em\u003e 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:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFrances Allen: Pioneer in optimizing compilers, first woman to win the Turing Award (2006) and first female IBM fellow \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJoe Armstrong: Inventor of Erlang\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJoshua Bloch: Author of the Java collections framework, now at Google \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBernie Cosell: One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMPs and a master debugger \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDouglas Crockford: JSON founder, JavaScript architect at Yahoo! \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eL. Peter Deutsch: Author of Ghostscript, implementer of Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1 \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript, CTO of the Mozilla Corporation \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrad Fitzpatrick: Writer of LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, and Perlbal \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDan Ingalls: Smalltalk implementor and designer \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSimon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDonald Knuth: Author of \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Computer Programming\u003c\/em\u003e and creator of TeX \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePeter Norvig: Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGuy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five, currently working on Fortress\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eKen Thompson: Inventor of UNIX \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJamie Zawinski: Author of XEmacs and early Netscape\/Mozilla hacker \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Apress\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2009-09-16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781430219484\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4302-1949-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 229cm x152cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 618\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Apress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47392372392076,"sku":"9781430219484","price":62.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781430219484.jpg?v=1775766204","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781430219484","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}