As a professional programmer for the past 27 years, I found the technical content of this book to be very good -- I only spotted on mistake (bug? :-).
However, I'm *really* happy to say that no programmers in my experience (or in the experience of my colleges and friends) are as horrible as most of the people in this book.
Nor, I'm happy to report, is programming (or learning to program) something that makes you an insensitive, unfeeling, uncaring person.
So, yeah, this is an unpleasant people do unpleasant things to each other kind of story. From that starting point, it's pretty well done.
I'm just sorry to see how (undeservedly) bad a portrait of the developer community it portrays.
However, I'm *really* happy to say that no programmers in my experience (or in the experience of my colleges and friends) are as horrible as most of the people in this book.
Nor, I'm happy to report, is programming (or learning to program) something that makes you an insensitive, unfeeling, uncaring person.
So, yeah, this is an unpleasant people do unpleasant things to each other kind of story. From that starting point, it's pretty well done.
I'm just sorry to see how (undeservedly) bad a portrait of the developer community it portrays.
