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Computer software
Computer software, or just software is a general term used to describe the role that computer programs, procedures and documentation play in a computer system.
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The Mythical Man-Month
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later". This idea is known as Brooks'...
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- 1975
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- Jan 1, 1975
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Cathedral and the Bazaar (abbreviated CatB) is an essay by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail. It...
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- 1999
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Google Hacks
Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter Searching (ISBN 0-596-00447-8) is a book of tips about Google, a popular Internet search engine, by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest. The book was published by O'Reilly in February 2002 (3rd edition 2006). It...
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The Art of Unix Programming
The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond is a book about the history and culture of Unix programming from its earliest days in 1969 to now, covering both genetic derivations such as BSD and conceptual ones such as Linux.
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Code Complete
Code Complete is a software development book, written by Steve McConnell and published by Microsoft Press, urging developers to get past code and fix programming and the "big design up front" waterfall model. It is also a compendium of software...
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- 1993
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- 1993
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Object-Oriented Software Construction
Object-Oriented Software Construction is the title of a book by Bertrand Meyer, widely considered a foundational text of object-oriented programming. The first edition was published in 1988; the second, extensively revised and expanded edition (more...
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Decline and Fall of the American Programmer
Decline and Fall of the American Programmer is a book written by Edward Yourdon in 1992. It was addressed to American programmers and software organizations of the 1990s, warning that they were about to be driven out of business by programmers in...
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- 1992
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Game Design Workshop
Game Design Workshop, 2nd Edition: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games is a book on game design by Tracy Fullerton, originally published by CMP Books in 2004 was updated and released as a new edition by Morgan Kaufmann in 2008.
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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software is a (2007) Random House literary nonfiction book by Salon.com editor and journalist Scott Rosenberg. It documents the workers of Mitch Kapor's...
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- Jan 2007
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Domain-driven design
Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to the design of software, based on the two premises :
The term was coined by Eric Evans in his book of the same title.
In the book Domain-Driven Design, a number of high-level concepts and practices are...
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Implementation Patterns
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Time Bomb 2000
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Rapid development
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Computers Ltd
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Labyrinths
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Switching to the Mac
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Windows Me
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Mac OS 9
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Windows XP pro
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Crossing platforms
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Discover Windows 95
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More DOS for dummies
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Mac OS X killer tips
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TiVo For Dummies
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