Greek Sublime by Chandra, V - Book Report/Review Example

GREEK SUBLIME BOOK REVIEW al Affiliation) Introduction In the book Greek Sublime, the main idea discussed is on programming and coding and the opinions of Chandra on the issue of coding. He brings the differentiation and understanding on what coding is, the works that it carries out and situations where it cannot be used. The argument in the book review lead to the understanding that coding has effects on human than they might think. The argument on the ability of coding to change us according Chandra is also considered. Description of what Chandra thinks about coding Chandra’s view about coding is complex of clashing cultures than it was done by Snow. Coding was originally meant for women since a woman invented it. The computers that were developed on atomic bomb were mainly a coding idea from a woman. Chandra verifies the masculinization of the firm using male-oriented ability tests that presented an arrival of what was referred as being egocentric. The situation and description leads him to relate the instance to politics of British Raj (Chandra & Hel-Guedj, 2014). He writes about it stating that intelligence and capability of intellectuality were inextricably intertwined with masculinity in women. In his view, those that exhibited feminist were illogically and those that were easily overcome by emotion. He argues that they were those that were incapable of scientific reasoning and lacked progress. He thought that in the state of the world where women were without power bore the fruits of coding. Chandra also thought that coming up with coding was not as a result of an accident and he says that the grammar used was an algorithm and a machine that consumed phenomenon and morphemes that produces words and sentence. The argument that the situation was not coincided is supported through the American syntactic theory where Chomsky in the theory directing Panini, formed the soil in which the computer languages raised. Chandra in his argument on what coding is begins in what he refers to Sanskrit-speaking and writing acumen which came out in the Afghanistan to Java and afterwards through different kingdoms, cultures and languages. According to him, the origin of coding was in Afghanistan to Java and then to other cultures. In the invention and origin, Chandra turns instead to the programming as a language being a bestiary of which he lovingly describes: from the crude early PL/1 to Microsoft’s dorky Visual Basic, the fashionable Closure. In this situation, he thought coding was first started as a language and then was used in other means. When Chandra writes the first novel ‘Red Earth and Pouring Rain’ he says that coding is not a language nor is it a grammar that is able to make a poem beautiful. He considered this and goes to cultural device to the Tantric texts of the first millennium where there was application of the technique. In the quest he considered that coding is neither a language nor grammar that can enable an artist to fulfill the desired artistic work. In the comparison or coding and poetry, he found that poetry and logic are different in the sense that poetry has patience while in computer coding there is power (Chandra & Hel-Guedj, 2014). Coding acts and interacts with itself with the world. Coding according to Chandra has been filtered alongside the way. He argues that there is already filtering experience through software. Through coded sites such as offer the view that we manipulate which also in turn we manipulate. The languages that are in apps, websites and networks write it in individuals. According to Chandra & Hel-Guedj (2014), he brings out the argument that one should not learn about programming in the computers to be able to qualify as being literate. He also brings it out that it is not fundamental that one becomes aware of the codes but when one is aware of the codes and coding, it does not hurt. He thinks that one day the codes will be aware of us. In Chandra’s view, he does not directly address the question on whether everyone is expected to learn to code but does anatomies a parallel stream of modern pro-coding rhetoric – that software is art and that programmers should be respected as artists. Chandra insist that art is art and coding is also coding is also coding is on its own. Codes according to his argument work correctly but when Chandra is doing his works on fiction he attempts to find the perfection and then discover the perfect way to deface that perfection. Description on how coding understands us more than we might think In argument, though there are some codes in action that constitute art such as in videogames, the millions of lines of symbolic instruction themselves are not poetry. In the current use of programming in science and computers, people think and view coding as poetry but the understanding in coding brings it out that the symbolic instruction themselves are not poetry. In understanding the control that coding has on human, there is need of programmers to understand and claim the extraordinary nature of what they do. This will enable understanding the control that the cases have over us since in coding, the programmers are directed with the codes that they develop to perform (Chandra & Hel-Guedj, 2014). Codes according to Chandra are in a unique way kinetic. Coding acts and interacts with itself and with the word. In coding, the mental and the material are one. Codes are able to move and have control over human. According to Chandra & Hel-Guedj (2014), coding should be treated as science and also art as being an art as they are two different things that sure to be understood differently. In control that coding have control over us in the works that are done by artists, the aim is to find the way in which the codes are able to function correctly. This is also supported by Chandra as he insist that art is art and coding is also coding is on its own. Codes according to his argument work correctly but when Chandra is doing his works on fiction he attempts to find the perfection and then discover the perfect way to deface that perfection. The attempt to find perfection in coding shows the understanding that coding have on us more than we think. The understanding that coding has on us is thought by Chandra to be neutral. This is through the explanation that he gives on the coding language referred to as ‘brainfuck’. From explanations that are given by Chandra concerning taxonomy of programming styles the identification that has been made is that many can be considered as a low-level "Mort" (Chandra & Hel-Guedj, 2014). This is due to the teachings that one have on BASIC as a child, and are able to at the moment write HTML and CSS, and hack around in PHP a little until the websites work the way they are needed, make someone to have a primary job which to fornicated widgets. Chandra supports coding as a good practice and an ethical act and terms it that coding is a crucial skill that in needed not just for those that are to work as software engineers but for everyone. We might think that coding is only utilized by the engineers but the understanding is that there is more control by coding over us than we understand (Chandra & Hel-Guedj, 2014). The two cultures, literature and science are still with us with only a shift in the fault lines. In the changes, one is able to use explain the scientific concepts but they are not able to code. One is comfortable with scientific expression but there is no ability to explain the codes. Analysis of the review of the book The book brings out the argument that intellectual cultures is considered into two, that of literature and science. In the current situation in which people live, many are able to explain science as literature but are not able to go deep into the explanation to prove and give the facts that are behind science. The cultures that were there still exist but there has been a shift as there are improvements in coding and science. This makes coding understands more than we think and how it changes the lives of people. In the arguments that are given by Chandra, he offers a far more complex view of coding than it was ever done. Programmers feel a frightening original mastery and this is captured by Chandra in this in his arguments. The view that he has and gives proof on the codes and how he uses them can be considered valid. Coding that is wrote sets off other subterranean invocations which are completely unreadable to me, but are able to cause objects to move in the actual world, and send communications to the other side of the planet. The way in which coding was considered not a main field is questionable. The discovery was by a woman and was originally considered a field for women. The question here is on how the others came interested in the field and decided to develop it. Programming was at first the work of a woman in 1840 and the human computers on the projects of atomic bond were women. The investigations that was done by Chandra was brings it out that there was more than just women behind the development of programming. He investigates the concept through consideration of masculinization. The originality is not brought out well and there is difficulty in the version that should be believed to be true. The historical concept can be believed to be true as it brings out evidence of the beginning of programming. The version of arguments that is brought out by Chandra has also evidence on programming being based on masculinization. He writes about it stating that intelligence and capability of intellectuality were inextricably intertwined with masculinity in women. In his view, those that exhibited feminist were illogically and those that we easily overcome by emotion. He argues that they were those that were incapable of scientific reasoning and lacked progress. Yet computational thinking is not new, and it is grounded in more fundamental disciplines such as mathematics, philosophy and linguistics. This, indeed, is one of the messages of Vikram Chandras fascinating and often beautiful new book, a kind of techno-artistic memoir that is informed by his unusual double ability as both novelist and coder (Chandra & Hel-Guedj, 2014). Chandra through the arguments that he makes can be considered a brilliant at technical exegesis with the roles of explaining logic gates, or suggesting the appeal of "object-oriented programming" but he also skeptic on modern coding philosophy, especially its widespread misogyny. This is through the points out he gives to the worlds first computer programmers were all women, working on the US armys ENIAC machine in the Second World War. He does not directly address the question of whether everyone should learn to code, but does anatomies a parallel stream of modern pro-coding rhetoric – that software is art and that programmers should be respected as artists. The arguments that are brought out by Chandra that programming was an accident can be considered a theory. He thought that coming up with coding was not as a result of an accident and he says that the grammar used was an algorithm and a machine that consumed phenomenon and morphemes that produces words and sentence. The argument is not certain as there is the history of programming to come about due to involvement in bomb technology by women that he also compromised. The point of programing being a result of accident can be disapproved. Conclusion The arguments on coding that are brought out by Chandra have changed the view on the originality cording and descriptions that should be given to cording. In his arguments such as programming being meant for women, coding being neither being a language nor grammar has changed the view that existed that coding is a language that is only meant for computer engineering. The control that coding has had on human without their understanding can be viewed in the current situation in technology sector and the uses that are made with computers. Reference Chandra, V., & Hel-Guedj, J. (2014). Geek sublime. Paris: R. Laffont. Read More