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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050	0	0	_aQA76.6 _b.S61546 2025
100	1		_aSmith, Andrew, _d1961- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDevil in the stack : _ba code odyssey / _cAndrew Smith.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_c2025
264		1	_aNew York : _bAtlantic Monthly Press, _c2025.
300			_a442 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"From internationally bestselling author and journalist Andrew Smith, an immersive, alarming, sharp-eyed journey into the bizarre world of computer code, told through his sometimes painful, often amusing attempt to become a coder himself. Throughout history, technological revolutions have been driven by the invention of machines. But today, the power of the technology transforming our world lies in an intangible and impenetrable cosmos of software: algorithmic code. So symbiotic has our relationship with this code become that we barely notice it anymore. We can't see it, are not even sure how to think about it, and yet we do almost nothing that doesn't depend on it. In a world increasingly governed by technologies that so few can comprehend, who-or what-controls the future? Devil in the Stack follows Andrew Smith on his immersive trip into the world of coding, passing through the stories of logic, machine-learning, and early computing, from Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing and up to the present moment, behind the scenes into the lives-and minds-of the new frontierspeople of the twenty-first century: those who write code. Smith embarks on a quest to understand this sect in what he believes to be the only way possible: by learning to code himself. Expansive and effervescent, Devil in the Stack delivers a portrait of code as both a vivid culture and an impending threat. How do we control a technology that most people can't understand? And are we programming ourselves out of existence? Perhaps most terrifying of all: Is there something about the way we compute-the way code works-that is innately at odds with the way humans have evolved? By turns revelatory, unsettling, and joyously funny, Devil in the Stack is an essential book for our times, of vital interest to anyone hoping to participate in the future-defining technological debates to come"--
600	1	0	_aSmith, Andrew, _d1961-
650		0	_aComputer programming _xPopular works.
650		0	_aHuman-computer interaction _xPopular works.
655		0	_aPrint books. _2local _94
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aSmith, Andrew, 1961- _tDevil in the stack _bFirst edition. _dNew York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024. _z9780802158840 _w(DLC) 2024014603
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