Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American City

by Yuri Takhteyev

An examination of software practice in Brazil that reveals both the globalization and the localization of software development.

Software development would seem to be a quintessential example of today's Internet-enabled "knowledge work"--a global profession not bound by the constraints of geography. In Coding Places, Yuri Takhteyev looks at the work of software developers who inhabit two contexts: a geographical area--in this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018071
• ISBN13: 9780262018074
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher