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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by prezjordan on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:23PM (#10974919)
My single favorite non-fiction work. (Probably better than any fiction I've read, too) Even if you're not a gamer, this book has such a great story and has so much to offer when it comes to software development in general.
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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by markpapadakis on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:42PM (#10975045)
Same here. I read this every year -- it motivates me like no other work or fiction or reality. I bought a few copies for friends, and it seems to have similar effects on them. I can't recommend it enough.
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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by pjc50 on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @05:38PM (#10976787)
You may also like "Racing the beam", which is not so long on human interest but has a lot of great technical, social and business perspective on the Atari era.
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