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Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software (Record no. 5117)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780571310302
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 809.93
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Personal name Chandra, Vikram
9 (RLIN) 374519
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Faber & Faber;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 144 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This is a great novelist on his twin obsessions: writing and coding. What is the relationship between the two? Is there such a thing as the sublime in code? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of coding? Vikram Chandra is the award-winning author of two acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories - and has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a writer. In his extraordinary new book he looks at the connection between these two worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? And is it a coincidence that Chandra is drawn to two seemingly opposing ways of thinking? Exploring these questions, Chandra creates an idiosyncratic history of coding - exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the male machismo of geeks, the striking presence of an 'Indian Mafia' in Silicon Valley, and the writings of Abhinavagupta, the 10th-11th century Kashmiri thinker. Part technology story and part memoir, Geek Sublime is a book of sweeping ideas. It is a heady and utterly original work.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Memoirs
9 (RLIN) 374520
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Computer science
9 (RLIN) 374521
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Computing and the Internet 13/06/2016 5 7 941.06 CHA PKLC009225 14/06/2022 14/06/2022 13/06/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Computing and the Internet 25/04/2016 2 3 941.06 CHA PKLC008720 26/06/2019 27/10/2018 25/04/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17