BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoProgramming@beehaw.org•What are good books about the philosophy of programming?
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1 year agoIn a similar vein of perhaps too technical but ultimately very informative, there’s The Secret Life of Programs. The author introduces you to how a bit works, and then walks through how to build a computer and web browser and such from it.
I had more of a boot camp education for computers, I find this stuff fascinating even if I don’t really ‘get’ it
Yeah, I’m not sure this is the generational thing that the author is trying to make it out to be. It seems to me like one of those things that leans on personal preference.
The author’s sample for the behavior of generations is a few anecdotes from personal friends. How many friends does a person have, 3, or 30, or 300? That means n is pretty small when there’s something like 3 billion mellenials