{"product_id":"code-to-joy-isbn-9780262546393","title":"Code to Joy","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow we can get more joy from our machines by telling them what our hearts desire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this informative, accessible, and very funny book, Michael L. Littman inspires readers to learn how to tell machines what to do for us. Rather than give in to the fear that computers will steal our jobs, spy on us and control what we buy and whom we vote for, we can improve our relationship with them just by learning basic programming skills. Our devices will help us, Littman writes, if we can say what we want in a way they can understand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter of the book focuses on a particular element of what can be said, providing examples of how we use similar communication in our daily interactions with people. Littman offers ways readers can experiment with these ideas right away, using publicly available systems that might also make us more productive as a welcome side effect. Each chapter also reflects on how the use of these programming components can be expedited by machine learning. With humor and teacherly guidance, \u003ci\u003eCode to Joy\u003c\/i\u003e brings into view a future where programming is like reading—something everyone can learn.1 Telling Computers What to Do: I've Got You 1\u003cbr\u003e2 The What of Programming: Allow Me to Introduce Myself 21\u003cbr\u003e3 Sequencing Commands: I'll Take Your Order Now 35\u003cbr\u003e4 Splitting on Conditionals: If That's What You Want! 65\u003cbr\u003e5 Storing in Variables: It's What I Stand For 91\u003cbr\u003e6 Consolidating into Loops: You Don't Have to Tell Me Twice 117\u003cbr\u003e7 Defining Functions: Call Me by Your Name 147\u003cbr\u003e8 Combining Code and Data: Sure, but Can You Give Me an Example? 173\u003cbr\u003e9 Programmable World: As You Wish 201\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments: Thanks! 213\u003cbr\u003eIndex 217“This is an important and timely book about us, the machines we have come to depend on, and the new world that creates, written by the second funniest person in computing and computer science.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Charles Isbell, Dean, John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair, College of Computing, Georgia Tech\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eCode to Joy\u003c\/i\u003e, computer scientist Phillipa Gill [sic] explores the ways that code can fail us and argues that everyone should learn to code so that we can make sure our machines are doing what we want them to do.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e— GPT-3 (deep neural network, Open AI)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Seems like a nice book, but I didn’t write it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Phillipa Gill, Adjunct Associate Professor, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts—Amherst\u003c\/b\u003eMichael L. Littman is University Professor of Computer Science at Brown University and holds an adjunct position with the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing. He was selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science as a Leadership Fellow for Public Engagement with Science in Artificial Intelligence.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304803586277,"sku":"NP9780262546393","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262546393.jpg?v=1767723879","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/code-to-joy-isbn-9780262546393","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}