Author: Edward Yourdon
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The lure of the silver bullet. Peopleware. Software processes. Software methodologies. Case. Software metrics. Software quality assurance. Software reusability. Software Re-engineering. Future trends. Software technology in India. The programmer's bookshelf.
Author: Edward Yourdon
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780139561603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ed Yourdon warned the American programmer in his award-winning, controversial bestseller "Decline and Fall of the American Programmer" that if they did not change, the industry would migrate to countries that were more productive. The software industry has responded to this challenge, and Yourdon shows how in this long-awaited paperback version of his international bestseller.
Author: James W. Cortada
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0195165888
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text provides a historical perspective on how some of the most important American industries used computing over the past half century, describing their experience, their best practices, and the role of industries and technologies in changing the nature of American work.
Author: Ellen Rose
Publisher: Between The Lines
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1896357792
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →User Error doesn't argue that we should simply reject computers, but neither does it uncritically embrace the current state of affairs but offers other options.
Author: Ramona Fernandez
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0292782039
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Defining the "common knowledge" a "literate" person should possess has provoked intense debate ever since the publication of E. D. Hirsch's controversial book Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Yet the basic concept of "common knowledge," Ramona Fernandez argues, is a Eurocentric model ill-suited to a society composed of many distinct cultures and many local knowledges. In this book, Fernandez decodes the ideological assumptions that underlie prevailing models of cultural literacy as she offers new ways of imagining and modeling mixed cultural and non-print literacies. In particular, she challenges the biases inherent in the "encyclopedias" of knowledge promulgated by E. D. Hirsch and others, by Disney World's EPCOT Center, and by the Smithsonian Institution. In contrast to these, she places the writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Leslie Marmon Silko, whose works model a cultural literacy that weaves connections across many local knowledges and many ways of knowing.
Author: Adam Barr
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 026203851X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An industry insider explains why there is so much bad software—and why academia doesn't teach programmers what industry wants them to know. Why is software so prone to bugs? So vulnerable to viruses? Why are software products so often delayed, or even canceled? Is software development really hard, or are software developers just not that good at it? In The Problem with Software, Adam Barr examines the proliferation of bad software, explains what causes it, and offers some suggestions on how to improve the situation. For one thing, Barr points out, academia doesn't teach programmers what they actually need to know to do their jobs: how to work in a team to create code that works reliably and can be maintained by somebody other than the original authors. As the size and complexity of commercial software have grown, the gap between academic computer science and industry has widened. It's an open secret that there is little engineering in software engineering, which continues to rely not on codified scientific knowledge but on intuition and experience. Barr, who worked as a programmer for more than twenty years, describes how the industry has evolved, from the era of mainframes and Fortran to today's embrace of the cloud. He explains bugs and why software has so many of them, and why today's interconnected computers offer fertile ground for viruses and worms. The difference between good and bad software can be a single line of code, and Barr includes code to illustrate the consequences of seemingly inconsequential choices by programmers. Looking to the future, Barr writes that the best prospect for improving software engineering is the move to the cloud. When software is a service and not a product, companies will have more incentive to make it good rather than “good enough to ship."
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Published: 1996-07-01
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network.
Author: Rowena Barrett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1134361173
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Research from Australia, Europe, and the UK is used to examine the differences between the image and reality of work in the software development industry and to provide an analysis of software development and developers.
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Published: 1988-12-12
Total Pages: 106
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →InfoWorld is targeted to Senior IT professionals. Content is segmented into Channels and Topic Centers. InfoWorld also celebrates people, companies, and projects.