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Jim Grep
ASIN: B082VKD2N7
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 46

A Nostalgic Programming Story from Silicon Valley of the 90sA few PC programmers have some fun solving interesting computer bugs entirely by logic and deduction. They take turns narrating an interesting bug story from their past that others try to solve by thinking like an armchair detective.The team gets a thrill hunting down clues in the story narration of three mysterious problems. Why wouldn't the mainframe computer accept a password from a manager? Why did a DOS computer game developed in C++ fail only on a particular model of IBM 386 PC? What was the mysterious bug that waited for several months before striking a happy little C program?The first mystery can be enjoyed by any computer enthusiast. It doesn't need technical knowledge. The second mystery has a problem that is simple to understand but the thinking that leads to the solution turns out to be an interesting exercise. The ...
Amazon Rating:
4.5 stars from 106 ratings