num_pages: 272
description: Librarian note This book is was originally published as Mirrored MindMy Life In Letters And Code by Penguin India please see other editions if you wish to add that version.Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book his first work of nonfiction he searches for the connections between the 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? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code? Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism the machismo of tech geeks the omnipresence of an Indian Mafia in Silicon Valley and the writings of Abhinavagupta the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Geek Sublime is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay part technology story and part memoir it is an engrossing original and heady book of sweeping ideas.
language: English
title: Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
publisher: Graywolf Press