Pdf coders at work

You've heard it all. Veterans Administration. This unique book teaches you concrete techniques rooted in cognitive science that will improve the way you learn and think about code. This book will help you through the confusion you feel when faced with strange and complex code, and explain a codebase in ways that can make a new team member productive in days!

Techniques based in cognitive science make it possible to learn new languages faster, improve productivity, reduce the need for code rewrites, and more. This unique book will help you achieve these gains. It offers scientifically sound techniques that can radically improve the way you master new technology, comprehend code, and memorize syntax. What's inside Understand how your brain sees code Speed reading skills to learn code quickly Techniques to unravel complex code Tips for making codebases understandable About the reader For programmers who have experience working in more than one language.

About the author Dr. Felienne Hermans is an associate professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She has spent the last decade researching programming, how to learn and how to teach it. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as well as analyzing political cartoons, advertisements, and reports on white-collar work, Amrute spent time with a core of twenty programmers before, during, and after their shifts.

She shows how they occupy a contradictory position, as they are racialized in Germany as temporary and migrant grunt workers, yet their middle-class aspirations reflect efforts to build a new, global, and economically dominant India. The ways they accept and resist the premises and conditions of their work offer new potentials for alternative visions of living and working in neoliberal economies. Demonstrating how these coders' cognitive labor realigns and reimagines race and class, Amrute conceptualizes personhood and migration within global capitalism in new ways.

Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of computer code. Coders — software programmers — are the people who built it for us. Because that tells you where to go next in a really visceral way. It felt like doing all the requirements for a computer-science major was like majoring in IBM.

Peter Seibel is either a writer turned programmer or programmer turned writer. After picking up an undergraduate degree in English from Yale and working briefly as a journalist, he was seduced by the web. In he quit his job as the architect of a Java-based transactional messaging system, planning to hack Lisp for a year. Since then he's been working as chief monkey at Gigamonkeys Consulting, working on Coders at Work , learning to train chickens, practicing Tai Chi, and being a dad.

Available now! Author Peter Seibel is either a writer turned programmer or programmer turned writer.