dps@acd4.UUCP ( Dan Smith ) (12/06/89)
What three books would you like for Christmas? This is an attempt
to turn the corner on the CS Edcuation discussion into some positive
suggestions for continuing education for those of us who survived our
CS Education and are now living with the results.
A more general question is: How do you keep current with technology
and current events? Please send answers to these questions to me and I
will summarize them in a posting later. Thanks for your input.
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--Dan Smith dps@acd4 "Put me down, Put me down, Said the fish in the pot."
uunet!acd4!dps "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seussshimeall@cs.nps.navy.mil (Tim Shimeall x2509) (12/07/89)
How about:
1) Dijksta's "A Discipline of Programming"
2) Howden's new testing book (I believe it's titled something like
"Functional Testing and Program Analysis")
3) Anderson and Lee's "Fault Tolerance: Principles and Practice"
Why these three:
a) They discuss three separate approaches to the topic of program
development: fault avoidance (Dijkstra), fault elimination (Howden),
and fault tolerance (Anderson&Lee).
b) Each of them is well written
c) Together, they provide a good feel for the role of formal methods
in the practical task of building a program.
(For the curious: NO these aren't books on my Christmas List -- I've
already got 1&2, and 3 is on order... HOWEVER -- I've heard good
things about Cliff Stoll's book "Cuckoo's Egg" [Book length
description of the events described in his CACM paper "Stalking the
Wiley Hacker"].)
Tim