The Programmer’s Odyssey

What it does

A non-stodgy history of what is was like to work as a computer programmer in the 20th century.

The Programmer's Odyssey is an 'in the trenches' memoir of the career of one of the pioneering commercial programmers who started work in the early days of the digital age. "the digital age, and so the existence of commercial computer programmers, still only spans a single working life, and one of them is mine. .... I've gone through most of the changes in the programming world in all their frequent craziness." He includes full details of all the 'frequent craziness' which helps make the book highly readable and not a stodgy history of programming techniques and languages. Reviewers have consistently commented on the books readable style. I am just starting out on a career in IT, and this…from theprogrammersodyssey.com

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