Mark Seemann blog twitter Code That Fits in Your Head, 2021 The books Peter Watts, Blindsight, 2006. Goodreads description. Or: free at the author's site. Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, 2011 Also mentioned Read Montague, Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions, 2006 Felienne Hermans, The Programmer's Brain, 2021 George A. Miller, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two", 1956 Rich Hickey, "Hammock-Driven Development" (video), 2010 Peter Watts, Echopraxia, 2014 Poincaré's 1904 essay on creativity is described (with extensive quotes) in this article. The original source for the essay is his book The Foundations of Science, starting on page 179, a chapter titled "Mathematical Creation". The book is freely available for Kindle and in other formats via the Wayback Machine. Jamis Buck, Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages, 2015 Richard P. Gabriel, Patterns of Software, 1996. Free at the author's site.
CreditsThe image of Theseus, the spaceship in Blindsight, is from a page from Peter Watts' website. The image is not marked Creative Commons, though the whole novel is, so I'm hoping Mr. Watts won't mind.

0 Comments Sort By