straub@jogger.cs.umd.edu (Pablo A. Straub) (12/20/90)
I am building my personal library and I need help on selecting books. I plan to buy around 10 - 15 books on different areas of software engineering and related fields. Please tell me about your favourite book. Also, if you know of some book club with interesting material (and discounts! :-), please tell me. Thanks, -- Pablo Straub straub@cs.umd.edu
andy@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Andy Pippin <The Elf>) (12/20/90)
Like, ya' know, then straub@jogger.cs.umd.edu (Pablo A. Straub) says...
~I am building my personal library and I need help on selecting books.
~I plan to buy around 10 - 15 books on different areas of software
~engineering and related fields. Please tell me about your favourite
~book.
I would think that magazines (ie IEEE Transactions & ACM's
SIGSOFT) would keep you up to date.
aBp.
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Going free-agent in 177 days!!! ritchie@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (David Ritchie) (12/21/90)
I would recommend Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister. It is a excellent discussion of the people issues in software engineering. -- Dave Ritchie ritchie@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com
bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) (12/21/90)
In article <15050003@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> ritchie@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (David Ritchie) writes: > > I would recommend Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister. It is a excellent >discussion of the people issues in software engineering. I read this (after many recommendations) and while I generally liked it, some of the conclusions just didn't seem to follow from their data or arguments. My favorite book on people issues is: Philip Metzger, Managing_Programming_People. Short and readable like Peopleware but focuses more on specific software engineering activites. * Bruce Benson + Internet - bwb@sei.cmu.edu + + * Software Engineering Institute + Compuserv - 76226,3407 + >--|> * Carnegie Mellon University + Voice - 412 268 8469 + + * Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890 + + US Air Force
jcardow@blackbird.afit.af.mil (James E. Cardow) (12/21/90)
straub@jogger.cs.umd.edu (Pablo A. Straub) writes: >I am building my personal library and I need help on selecting books. >I plan to buy around 10 - 15 books on different areas of software >engineering and related fields. Please tell me about your favourite >book. Also, if you know of some book club with interesting material >(and discounts! :-), please tell me. I don't know if this will help much in what you are looking for, but we teach continuing education to working software professionals. During the course we try to stress the importance of "professionalism." One of the things we have recommended is developing a professional, personal library. This is the current list. We are still working on it, and it is just the opinions of the course instructors. Please assume the every and all possible disclaimer of blame is in place and treat this as our opinion. A Recommended Software Engineering Library AFIT Software Engineering Professional Continuing Education We recommend that students begin to build a personal software engineering library. The books listed below comprise a good start to that library. % One or two of the following software engineering texts: Fairley85 Fairley, R. E. Software Engineering Concepts. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1985. Pressman87 Pressman, R. S. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987. Schach90 (required text for WCSE 471) Schach, S. R. Software Engineering. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., and Aksen Associates, Inc., 1990. Sommerville89 Sommerville I., Software Engineering. New York: Addison-Wesley,1989. % One of the following collections of foundational articles in software engineering: Oman90 Oman, P. W. and Lewis, T. G., eds. Milestones in Software Evolution. Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1988. Thayer88 (required text for WCSE 471) Tutorial: Software Engineering Project Management. R. H. Thayer, ed. Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1988. % The following software requirements texts: Davis90 (required text for WCSE 472) Davis, A. M. Software Requirements Analysis and Specification. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1990. Gause89 (required text for WCSE 472) Gause, D. C. and Weinberg G. M. Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design. New York: Dorset House Publishing, 1989. % The following design text: Booch91 (probable required text for WCSE 473) Booch, G. R. Object Oriented Design with Applications. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings, 1991. % The following verification and validation texts: Beizer84 (probable required text for WCSE 475) Beizer, B. Software System Testing and Quality Assurance. New York: Van Nostrand, 1984. Gries81 (possible required text for WCSE 475) Gries, D. The Science of Programming. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981. % Humphrey's book on the software process: Humphrey89 Humphrey, W. S. Managing the Software Process. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1989. % In addition, we recommend any library contain a language reference for each programming language you use and an operating system reference for each operating system you use. Space does not permit us to include recommendations for individual languages and operating systems. We also believe the following books are valuable for any software engineering collection: Bersoff80 Bersoff, E. H., Henderson, V. D., and Siegel, S. G. Software Configuration Management An Investment in Product Integrity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1980. Boehm81 Boehm, B. W. Software Engineering Economics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981. Brooks75 Brooks, F. P., Jr. The Mythical Man-Month. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1975. Deming82 Deming, W. E. Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982. Myers79 Myers, G. J. The Art of Software Testing. New York: John Wiley, 1979. Jim Cardow, Capt, USAF Air Force Institute of Technology Instructor of Software Engineering Professional Continuing Education Program
michaelo@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Mickael J. O'Hair) (12/29/90)
For one of the best works on management, read "The Art of War" by Sun-Tzu. A recent edition was put out by James Clavell (of "Shogun", etc.) and is truly excellent. I am particularly fond of the aphorism "spies are your most important resource." Having suffered through several now-defunct companies that did not view marketing as an intelligence-gathering function, I can vouch personally for the utility of this classic book. -mjo-