{"product_id":"coders-at-work-reflections-on-the-craft-of-programming-paperback","title":"Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Seibel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\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\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Seibel is a serious developer of long standing. In the early days of the Web, he hacked Perl for Mother Jones and Organic Online. He participated in the Java revolution as an early employee at WebLogic which, after its acquisition by BEA, became the cornerstone of the latter's rapid growth in the J2EE sphere. He has also taught Java programming at UC Berkeley Extension. He is the author of Practical Common LISP from Apress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 632\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44838611320934,"sku":"9781430219484","price":85.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/M2p2elFGc0t5bG82TU1BTi9ZQnZYQT09.webp?v=1772473833","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/coders-at-work-reflections-on-the-craft-of-programming-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}