Geek Sublime: The Beauty Of Code, The Code Of Beauty

"Geek Sublime is a primer for those of us unacquainted with HTML, Github and logic gates, elegantly assembled by a masterful novelist with a surprising obsession. “My writing life and my life with computers … seem mirrored, computer twinned,” writes Vikram Chandra. “Both are explorations of process, of the unfolding of connections.” He describes the seductiveness of DOS, his own journeyman coding, and how “hard-core” programmer Steve Wozniak single-handedly set off the personal computer revolution. And he waxes poetic about the algorithmic nature of Sanskrit."