Books tagged with 'programming': 6

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Website Design Louisville Kentucky

by...Blackstone Media Network     average rating...none
tags...design louisville programming website
shelved by...Blackstone
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Learning To Program with Alice (2nd Edition)

by...Wanda P. Dann     average rating...4.0 / 5
tags...organized programming
shelved by...forbesbc
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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by...Scott Rosenberg     average rating...4.0 / 5
tags...computing cryptography nonfiction programming
shelved by...Shadows_of_Colour zvilikestv
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entry by...zvilikestv     updated...Mar 25, '07     spoilers...n/a

This book's structure I felt was very irritating. It was one of those things where you have a chronological structure with a lot of diversions into subtopics, which I'm normally okay with, but the subtopics kept leading to further subtopics which might or might not tie back into the main chronology. I found it offputting, and very difficult to know where I was in the story.

But I did clearly grasp the moral of the story which is: any time you ask to do something new and complicated with software, you should accept that it's going to be hard, it's going to take more money and time than you planned to do it (even if you take that idea into account), and that it'll be hard to know when you're done writing the software if you don't have either a fiscal or temporal constraint on your production.

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Digital Fortress

by...Dan Brown     average rating...3.1 / 5
tags...cryptography dan_brown fiction nsa programming suspense thriller
shelved by...ajschuler baileybrd24 drneevil fader Jen71802 judith_richards LynnieMay mantisgb prabham ruichambel saravanan
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'Good Read'

entry by...fader     updated...Apr 29, '07     spoilers...n/a

I loved this book! Every chapter had a cliffhanger ending and needless to say, I finished reading the book in less than 2 days!

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entry by...drneevil     updated...May 31, '07     spoilers...minor

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Susan Fletcher, a brilliant mathematician and head of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) cryptography division, finds herself faced with an unbreakable code resistant to brute-force attacks by the NSA's 3 million processor supercomputer. The code is written by Japanese cryptographer Ensei Tankado, a sacked employee of the NSA, who is displeased with the agency's intrusion into people's privacy.

Tankado auctions the algorithm on his website, threatening that his accomplice "North Dakota" will release the algorithm for free if he dies. Tankado is found dead in Seville, Spain. Fletcher, along with her fiancé, David Becker, a skilled linguist with eidetic memory, must find a solution to stop the spread of the code.

At least with the other three, you got the impression that Brown had done some research - this is just...tripe.

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entry by...Jen71802     updated...May 20, '08     spoilers...n/a

Another fun action read from Dan Brown.

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entry by...baileybrd24     updated...Aug 01, '09     spoilers...n/a

Disappointing after reading Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. Seemed hurriedly written and not really well thought out. Had promise, but not well executed.

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Advanced PHP Programming

by...George Schlossnagle     average rating...5.0 / 5
tags...php programming reference
shelved by...gemma
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

by...Andrew Hunt, David Thomas     average rating...none
tags...development nonfiction programming
shelved by...gemma
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