[Commlist] New book: Coderspeak: The language of computer programmers

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to list subscribers, Coderspeak: The 
language of computer programmers, by Guilherme Orlandini Heurich. 
Download it free: https://bit.ly/3QOLiw0

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Coderspeak
The language of computer programmers
Guilherme Orlandini Heurich
Free download: https://bit.ly/3QOLiw0
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Software applications have taken over our lives. We use and are used by 
software many times a day. Nevertheless, we know very little about the 
invisibly ubiquitous workers who write software. Who are they and how do 
they perceive their own practice? How does that shape the ways in which 
they collaborate to build the myriad of apps that we use every day?

Coderspeak provides a critical approach to the digital transformation of 
our world through an engaging and thoughtful analysis of the people who 
write software. It is a focused and in-depth look at one programming 
language and its community – Ruby - based on ethnographic research at a 
London company and conversations with members of the wider Ruby 
community in Europe, the Americas and Japan. This book shows that the 
place people write code, the language they write it in and the stories 
shared by that community are crucial in questioning and unpacking what 
it means to be a ‘coder’. Understanding this social group is essential 
if we are to grasp a future (and a present) in which computer 
programming increasingly dominates our lives.

Download it free: https://bit.ly/3QOLiw0

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