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Review – User Stories Applied
User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn. Addison-Wesley, 2004.This book is all about user stories, focused on the XP-style customer or the Scrum-style product owner (although programmers and others should...
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Review – Design Patterns in Java
Design Patterns in Java. Steve Metsker and William C. Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2006. I won’t review my own book, but I will summarize: This is a workbook-style book, updating Steve’s earlier Design...
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Review – Current Trends in Programming Methodology, Vol. 4: Data Structuring
Current Trends in Programming Methodology, Volume 4: Data Structuring, Raymond T. Yeh, editor. Prentice-Hall, 1978. In parallel with "structured programming," (which often focused on code structure),...
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Review – Clean Code
Clean Code, Bob Martin, Prentice-Hall, 2008. Bob Martin tackles the challenges of making code sparkling clean. He provides numerous guidelines, and demonstrates their utility in action. I particularly...
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Review – Exploring Requirements
Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design, Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg. 1989, Dorset House.This book is an exploration not just of gathering requirements, including the challenges of...
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Review – Structured Design
Structured Design. Edward Yourdon and Larry L. Constantine. Prentice-Hall, 1979. This was one of the early structured "standard works" that I've only just gotten to for the first time. I'd learned...
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Review – Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques
Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques. Chris Gane and Trish Sarson. Prentice Hall, 1979. This is one of the classic books on systems analysis: data flow diagrams, data dictionary, and so...
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Review: Structured Programming (Dahl, Dijkstra, and Hoare)
Structured Programming, by O.-J. Dahl, E.W. Dijkstra, and C.A.R. Hoare. Academic Press, 1972. This year (2012) is the 40th anniversary of this text, but it holds up well. It consists of three essays:...
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Review: Compiler Construction (Wirth)
Compiler Construction, by Niklaus Wirth. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0201403536. I hadn’t run across this before, but I can’t resist calling it out now. It’s a presentation by Niklaus Wirth of how to...
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Review: Parsing Techniques, A Practical Guide (2/e)
Parsing Techniques, A Practical Guide (2/e), by Dick Grune and Ceriel J.H. Jacobs This book covers a huge range of parsing techniques – every parsing technique I’d heard of, and many more. Once Donald...
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