[comp.edu] List of Soft. Engg. Books

rpandey@mist.cs.orst.edu (Rajeev Pandey) (12/02/89)

> For that matter, if anyone has any reading list recommendations they 
> would like to suggest, I would be interested in hearing of them.
> I am looking first for general background info, and then also
> anything considered seminal, the "must-reads" which get the most attention.
> 

> I second that!  I came out of school with a BA in Math/CS,
>                             :
> Anyway, I would be interested in seeing a Software Engineering
> reading list so that I can learn more about it.

 Edward Yourdon (a Software Engineer of repute (his columns/books are 
 well-read)), has a technical report on just this:

 "The 68 Best Software Books" 
 Technical Report TR-7 (September 1988)
 by Edward Yourdon 

It is available free upon written request from:

Edward Yourdon
American Programmer
161 West 86th Street
New York, NY  10024
(212)-769-9460

18 of the listed books have been reviwed in his journal "American Programmer",
the reviews are included as well.

There are some really interesting books on this list, like F.P. Brooks' "The
Mythical Man-Month" (of course), "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
by Robert Pirsig, Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions",etc. 
Most of the rest sound like pretty hard-core software engineering books, 
though :-).


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