When I wrote my book it was aimed at two major audiences: Young coders at commercial coding bootcamps Academic institutions with computer science departments. It turns out that the first group have little interest in knowing the history of their chosen profession and the second group have little interest in giving their students any knowledge of life outside the ivory towers. In fact the main interest has come from experienced commercial programmers who like it as a nostalgic

"Web3 is just the newest way of serving up the same old crypto bullshit, and it stinks just as badly as ever." Jemima Kelly, Financial...

In 1951 in England Mary Coombs became the first female commercial programmer at J Lyons & Co the family owned teashop business that was...

The subtitle of my book 'The Programmer's Odyssey' is 'A Journey Through The Digital Age' but since the book's publication in 2016 the...

This is such a great picture of a commercial programmer working on her program design back in the day and if I had seen it when I...