Coders at Work (P. Seibel)

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Peter Seibel interviews sixteen renowned computer programmers in Coders at Work. These include Douglas Crockford (founder of JSON), Peter Norvig (Director of Research at Google), Francis Allen (the first woman to win the Turing award), and Ken Thompson (inventor of UNIX).

The book focuses on how these programmers do their job and how they see themselves. It does a good job of showing that these famous programmers often aren't any different from other programmers and struggle with the same problems that we mere mortals do.