{"product_id":"9781430219491","title":"Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming","description":"\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 What you’ll learnHow the best programmers in the world do their jobs! Who this book is for      \u003cp\u003e     Programmers interested in the point of view of leaders in the field. Programmers looking for approaches that work for some of these outstanding programmers.       \u003c\/p\u003e     Table of Contents\u003col\u003e \u003cli\u003eJamie Zawinski \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrad Fitzpatrick \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDouglas Crockford \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrendan Eich \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJoshua Bloch \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJoe Armstrong \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSimon Peyton Jones \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePeter Norvig \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGuy Steele \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDan Ingalls \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eL Peter Deutsch \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eKen Thompson \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFran Allen \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBernie Cosell \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDonald Knuth \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Apress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122596528368,"sku":"9781430219491","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781430219491_p0.jpg?v=1763750209","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781430219491","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}