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"The writer chooses a range of fiction, history and theory to offer an informal anthropology of computing"

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1		Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold 4.40 avg rating — 10,949 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2		The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder 4.11 avg rating — 9,900 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3		Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 8,664 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4		Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg 3.71 avg rating — 3,103 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5		The Computer Boys Take over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise by Nathan L. Ensmenger 3.79 avg rating — 96 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6		Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution by Fred Vogelstein (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 2,318 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7		Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner 4.30 avg rating — 20,854 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8		Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 24,803 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9		The Culture: Consider Phlebas/Player of Games/Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks 4.48 avg rating — 563 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10		The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold 4.28 avg rating — 1,196 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

10 books · 1 voter · list created January 29th, 2019 by John (votes) .

Tags: computers, computing, digital, geek, internet, nerd, non-fiction, web

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