Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (Paperback)

from JonathanGorman

Very good book. A wide variety of people and experiences. The interviewer asks good questions. Inspiring in parts, although there are parts that made me feel like an vast underachiever as well. Probably my favorite collection of interviews with programmers, followed by Programmers at Work.

from tony_landis

I found myself glued to this book. I never read a book in the interview format before, and found that the conversation style was very readable and felt that I was getting into the mind of the interviewee as a result. I appreciated a number of the common themes that the interviewer raised in every...

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Software developers are typically bright people but possess few social contacts who approach the world like them. Such loneliness is famously parodied by stereotypes. Even the most social among us have a difficult time relating to others what programming is like. In this work, Seibel provides int...

from sbloom42

It took me a long time to get through this book, but it was worth it! The interviews are very interesting and range from people who have been in the CS field for decades to relative newcomers. The author asks the same set of questions to each person, which I found both good and bad. It was good b...

from tony_landis

I found myself glued to this book. I never read a book in the interview format before, and found that the conversation style was very readable and felt that I was getting into the mind of the interviewee as a result. I appreciated a number of the common themes that the interviewer raised in every...