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Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Mayer.

Hear me out. This is a comedy novel in the vein of Pratchett or Douglas Adams. But the central conceit is that a hacker finds a large configuration file on a system he hacks into. He finds his name in the file, and information about himself, including his x,y,z co-ordinates. He discovers that if he changes those co-ordinates, he teleports in reality. He has infact found the configuration file that runs our reality. He rapidly gets himself into legal trouble and so - to escape - teleports himself to England in the Middle Ages to pose as a Wizard.

Its a very silly novel but programming takes center stage and - if you accept the central conceit of the configuration file - the programming is all realistic.

Recommended. Scott Mayer is also a cartoonist who does the long running 'Basic Instructions' webcomic.



On a similar theme `Wiz`, a hacker ends up in fantasy-land where programming can create magic:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/43084-wiz


Also in the list already :)


I enjoyed this, it is in the list!


Ah it was already on the list, I didn't realise




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