The IEEE would say that everything a software ENGINEER should know is in their SWEBOK guide here http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok/htmlformat http://www

The IEEE would say that everything a software ENGINEER should know is in their SWEBOK guide here http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok/htmlformat http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok/htmlformat If the date 2004 worries you, then download a draft of version 3 of SWEBOK here http://computer.centraldesktop.com/swebokv3review/ http://computer.centraldesktop.com/swebokv3review/ and click on SWEBOKV3_Ballot_public.pdf on the left sidebar of the page. Actually, if you want to put together a plan for self study, then work through SWEBOK and Google for papers on the various sub topics covered. One thing about software engineering is that just about all research is published openly on the web particulary in CiteSeerX.