Steinhart J. The Secret Life of Programs

San Francisco : No Starch Press, Inc., 2019. — 458 p.Teachers are people who train the basic human machinery to perform certain tasks. Similarly, programming is about becoming a teacher of computers. Programmers teach computers to do what the programmers want them to do.
Knowing how to teach computers is useful, especially when you want a computer to do something that it doesn’t know how to do and you can’t just go buy a program for it because nobody has created one yet. For example, you probably take the World Wide Web for granted, but it was invented not long ago, when Sir Tim Berners-Lee needed a better way for scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or CERN) to share information. And he got knighted for it. How cool is that?
Teaching computers is complicated, but it’s easier than teaching people. We know a lot more about how computers work. And computers are a lot less likely to throw up on you.