From 9844a5c7694fcae61ed4509f09a595daf15cb44f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mjkwiatkowski Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2026 15:02:02 +0100 Subject: feat: major changes to website design --- content/books/coders-at-work.md | 27 --------------------------- 1 file changed, 27 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 content/books/coders-at-work.md (limited to 'content/books/coders-at-work.md') diff --git a/content/books/coders-at-work.md b/content/books/coders-at-work.md deleted file mode 100644 index a4a7568..0000000 --- a/content/books/coders-at-work.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -+++ -date = '2025-09-03T18:28:08+02:00' -draft = true -title = 'Coders at Work' -+++ - -![coders-at-work](/images/coders-at-work.jpg#floatright) - -Coders at Work is a book written by Peter Seibel, a programmer who decided to interview some of the most influential coders in the Computer Science field. -I think this book is a must read for anyone who wants to gain an in-depth view of what prompted the best programmers in the world to start tinkering with computers and code. - -To be frank each chapter read of this book has motivated me to immediately stop anything that I was doing and just get to coding, so it is definitely a good motivator to get into the Computer Science field. -Additionally, sometimes to new programmers it might be challenging and overwhelming to get to realize how much there is to learn and how advanced the people at the top are. -There is no doubt whatsoever that each person interviewed in this book is a world-renown coder, a master of their craft. -Nevertheless the interview format and the sometimes informal responses show that in the end they also started just like us from scratch, sometimes late in life. -Because of this, I think the message of the book is that anyone can program, regardless of when they start or what background they are from. - -In this review I would like to write a short paragraph about each chapter and summarize what I think are the most important takeaways. - -Joshua Bloch is a Chief Java architect at Google. -One of the interesting things that he mentions is that in his opinion there are two books any programmer should read, one of them being _The Elements of Style_, which is a book that I have known for a while. -It is definitely a recommended read for anyone writing prose, as it contains some of the most important rules which should guide the writer towards writing clearly. -On the topic of picking the right things to read and learn, Joshua Bloch says of programming languages: _It's like choosing a bar. You want to go to a bar that servers good drinks, but that's not the most important thing. -It's who hangs out there and what they talk about._ - - - -- cgit v1.2.3