Lev Manovich
SOFTWARE TAKES COMMAND

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contemporary software and web services, the book can change as often as I like, with new ???features??? and ???big fixes??? added periodically. I plan to take advantage of these possibilities. From time to time, I will be adding new material and making changes and corrections to the text.

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