Coderspeak: The Language of Computer Programmers

by Guilherme Orlandini Heurich

Overview

Coderspeak provides a critical approach to the digital transformation of our world through an engaging and thoughtful analysis of the people who write software applications. It is a focused and in-depth look at one programming language and its community: Ruby.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800085992
Publisher:	U C L Press, Limited
Publication date:	11/05/2024
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Guilherme Orlandini Heurich is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Anthropology at UCL, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: Open source
1 Principal engineer
2 Open source
3 The myth of rails
4 Half-broken monoliths
5 A new service

Part II: Meta languages
6 Language dreams
7 Meta programming
8 Happy programmers
9 Chunky bacon

Part III: Beyond binaries
10 Learning to see
11 Beautiful code
12 Computing gender
13 Proper programmers

Part IV: Tokyo days
14 Not my type
15 After the rain
16 Patch first
17 Supreme beings
18 The end

Glossary
Bibliography
Index