Exploring Extreme Programming
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, Keith Johnstone. Routledge, 1979. Improvisational acting techniques are influencing the training world. They help you look at everything that happens as something you can say, “Yes, and” to, and create new and interesting things. Johnstone Continue reading Review – Impro
Training Games: Everything You Need to Know About Using Games to Reinforce Learning, Susan El-Shamy. Stylus Publishing, 2001. Describes some theory indicating how games help learning, classifies games a few ways, and considers electronic games. Considers the mechanics of playing Continue reading Review – Training Games
The refactoring grid is a toy designed to give you a feel for what refactoring is like, by working in a simple, non-code domain. [Michael Wainer has made game pieces available here: http://www.cs.siu.edu/~wainer/Pieces4RefGame/pieces4RefGame.html ] The Domain There is a grid Continue reading Refactoring Grid
Pair Programming Illuminated, Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler. Addison-Wesley, 2002. How to program in pairs. Describes problems pairs face when mixing experience levels or personality types. Has suggestions for improving pairing. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)
The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. Addison-Wesley, 2000. Skills and ideas every programmer should know. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)
Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age, Richard Coyne. MIT Press, 1995. Philosophical and a little heavy, but has some good ideas about what metaphors mean in a software context. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)
Object-Oriented Software, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Brian Wilkerson, and Lauren Wiener. Prentice-Hall, 1990.Older, but this is a good introduction to the idea of object design based on responsibilities. It uses a little more elaborate form of CRC cards than I’m used to. Continue reading Review – Designing Object-Oriented Software
Using CRC Cards: An Informal Approach to Object Development, Nancy Wilkinson SIGS Books, 1995. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)
The CRC Card Book, David Bellin and Susan Suchman Simone. Addison-Wesley, 1997. CRC cards, and ways to implement them in Smalltalk, C++, and Java. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)
The original CRC cards are captured at C2; the first training slides about them are also at C2. They have the original CRC cards paper (OOPSLA ’89) as well. Start with these.