Programming History

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    • From Algol Genes to Neural Nets
    • By: Subrata Dasgupta
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This book describes the evolution of computer science in the second age of computer science in the form of seven overlapping, intermingling, parallel histories that unfold concurrently in the course of the two decades....

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    • From Victory to Collapse
    • By: Joseph T. Glatthaar
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army, the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Robert E. Lee....

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    • The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
    • By: Clive Thompson
    • Narrated by: René Ruiz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 399 ratings
    • From tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that interrogates who they are, how they think, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause....

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    • Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf
    • By: Mark Frost
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 735 ratings
    • Francis Ouimet and Harry Vardon came from different worlds and different generations, but their passion for golf set them on parallel paths that would collide in the greatest match....

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    • 25th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Steven Levy
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,953 ratings
    • Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks....

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    • My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold
    • By: Abhinav Bindra, Rohit Brijnath
    • Narrated by: Mohan Ram
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Abhinav Bindra once shot 100 out of 100 in practice six times in a row and walked out of the range unhappy. He is a perfectionist who once soled his shoes with rubber from Ferrari tyres....

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    • Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
    • By: Jeff Pearlman
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,032 ratings
    • Best-selling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman draws from almost 300 interviews to take the first full measure of the Lakers’ epic Showtime era....

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    • By: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
    • Narrated by: Ken Burns
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • The companion to Ken Burns’s magnificent PBS television series—updated and expanded to coincide with the broadcast of a new, two-part "Tenth Inning"....

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    • The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
    • By: Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger
    • Narrated by: Don Azevedo
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of oppression, a motley collection of people were engaged in something more subversive....

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    • Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
    • By: Ken Kocienda
    • Narrated by: Ken Kocienda
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 916 ratings
    • Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era - the Golden Age of Apple....

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    • Hope and Redemption in Baseball's Longest Game
    • By: Dan Barry
    • Narrated by: Dan Barry
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • What began as a modestly attended minor-league game became not only the longest ever played in baseball history, but something else entirely....

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    • Programming in Humanity
    • By: Eve Poole
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • Two of the biggest problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue. One under-explored solution to these alignment and control problems might be to examine how these are already addressed in the design of humans.

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    • The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    • By: Don Van Natta Jr.
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high....

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    • The Idea that Rules the World
    • By: David Berlinski
    • Narrated by: Dennis Holland
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run....

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    • How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives
    • By: Frank Moss
    • Narrated by: Bruce Turk
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • If you've ever read a book on an e-reader, unleashed your inner rock star playing Guitar Hero, built a robot with LEGO Mindstorms, or ridden in a vehicle with child-safe air bags, then you've experienced first hand just a few of the astounding innovations that have come out of the Media Lab....

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    • An Introduction, History, and the Fundamentals for Creating Your First Program
    • By: Scott Bernard
    • Narrated by: Sean Posvistak
    • Series: Java Programming, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • This is the first in a series of books dedicated to learning about Java and Java programming....

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    • Learn the Fundamentals of Computer Programming Languages
    • By: Marc Rawen
    • Narrated by: Joe Bronzi
    • Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Become a programming master by learning these fundamental languages....

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    • Behind the Scenes at Fox Software
    • By: Kerry Nietz
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • Much has been written about the battles that rage between software companies over market share. FoxTales is the story of one such battle, told from...

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