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Are there any other author's similar to Steve McConnel? Someone who writes a book with pragmatic advice, based on real life research, focused on delivering pro
by JamesBarney 6y ago
Are there any other author's similar to Steve McConnel?
Someone who writes a book with pragmatic advice, based on real life research, focused on delivering projects quickly, on time, and with few defects?
Instead it feels like almost all the writing in software is evangelizing.
- vram22 6y agoGood question. Yes. Old but gold. Brian Kernighan. Jon Bentley. Google them and their books.
- dredmorbius 6y agoYou'll find many in his bibliography. Start with those, see who cites them, and McConnell.
- pjmorris 6y agoWholeheartedly agree with recommendations for Kernighan and Bentley. I think there's one Kernighan book I don't own, and they are all gold (if old.) I'd suggest anything and everything written by Gerald Weinberg, starting with what looks most appealing to you now. 'Making Software', edited by Wilson and Oram is chock-full of the latest research of its day (10 years ago.) It's dry, but it presents work of some top SE researchers. Following that group on twitter/Google scholar would bring you to the edge of what is studied in SE research.
- stagger87 6y agoI really like John Lakos who has written a few books on large scale C++ projects. Very practical material. I don't know how well it translates to other languages but they have been very helpful for my C++ projects. His books are based on his extensive real-world experience in this domain, both for EDA software and Bloomberg. *I have no association with him whatsoever.
- pklee 6y agoI would say Scott Ambler. His book "building object applications that work" was amazing and it helped me understand how to design systems
- blub 6y agoI guess "The leprechauns of software engineering" by Bossavit would fit. I've only read the free chapter myself though :-)