Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution: 25th Anniversary Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B017RV1I3C |
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| Number of Pages | : | 239 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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A must for computer enthusiasts and Computer Science Majors. Brian I was recommended this book by a colleague. I love it too. It is about the initial stages of the computer revolution, yet reads more like a collection of entertaining short stories. It is far from a dry read. Included in the front are short descriptions about people and devices mentioned or interviewed. If you're a software developer this actually explains why IDEs mark errors with red. If you're a gamer, you'll learn about the first video game. (It wasn't Pong). I haven't red the entire thing yet, but it's still a good read. External links . "One of my most delightful purchases ever!" according to Miller.. The book is funny, informative and impossible to put down! Having grown up through the infancy of personal computers, including nearly a one-year stint as a TRS-80 salesman, I laughed often out loud as I followed the adventures of Greenblatt, Gosper and dozens of others in Levy's tales. No other book I have read gives the genealogy of both hardware and software in their embryonic periods so well as this tome. "Hackers" now has a much friendlier connotation for me than it once did now that I appreciate the openness and positive nature of the . John Robinson said Fascinating But Sloggingly Slow Read. This is a fascinating examination of the tech culture that brought us the PC, Web, and eventually the smart phone. Took some time to slog through, but this tome is filled with engaging stories of the hackers who made our tech-world happen. I will be returning to this many times to mine the stories of innovation and creativity.
They had a shared sense of values, known as "the hacker ethic" that still thrives today. Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers. Hackers captures a seminal period in recent history when underground activities blazed a trail for today's digital world, from MIT students finagling access to clunky computer-card machines to the DIY culture that spawned the Altair and the Apple II.. Levy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems