Exploring Extreme Programming
Parsing Techniques, A Practical Guide (2/e), by Dick Grune and Ceriel J.H. Jacobs This book covers a huge range of parsing techniques – every parsing technique I’d heard of, and many more. Once Donald Knuth gets ready to produce volume Continue reading Review: Parsing Techniques, A Practical Guide (2/e)
Compiler Construction, by Niklaus Wirth. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0201403536. I hadn’t run across this before, but I can’t resist calling it out now. It’s a presentation by Niklaus Wirth of how to create a compiler. The source language is a subset Continue reading Review: Compiler Construction (Wirth)
Structured Programming, by O.-J. Dahl, E.W. Dijkstra, and C.A.R. Hoare. Academic Press, 1972. This year (2012) is the 40th anniversary of this text, but it holds up well. It consists of three essays: “Notes on Structured Programming” by E.W. Dijkstra Continue reading Review: Structured Programming (Dahl, Dijkstra, and Hoare)
Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques. Chris Gane and Trish Sarson. Prentice Hall, 1979. This is one of the classic books on systems analysis: data flow diagrams, data dictionary, and so on appear. It does a decent job explaining these Continue reading Review – Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques
Structured Design. Edward Yourdon and Larry L. Constantine. Prentice-Hall, 1979. This was one of the early structured “standard works” that I’ve only just gotten to for the first time. I’d learned things like coupling and cohesion, afferent and efferent flows, Continue reading Review – Structured Design
Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design, Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg. 1989, Dorset House. This book is an exploration not just of gathering requirements, including the challenges of ambiguity. The authors describe how to clarify expectations by using functions, attributes, Continue reading Review – Exploring Requirements
Clean Code, Bob Martin, Prentice-Hall, 2008. Bob Martin tackles the challenges of making code sparkling clean. He provides numerous guidelines, and demonstrates their utility in action. I particularly appreciated some of the longer examples where he really works them over. Continue reading Review – Clean Code
Current Trends in Programming Methodology, Volume 4: Data Structuring, Raymond T. Yeh, editor. Prentice-Hall, 1978. In parallel with “structured programming,” (which often focused on code structure), there was more esoteric work done on “structured data.” A lot of this found Continue reading Review – Current Trends in Programming Methodology, Vol. 4: Data Structuring
Design Patterns in Java. Steve Metsker and William C. Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2006. I won’t review my own book, but I will summarize: This is a workbook-style book, updating Steve’s earlier Design Patterns Java Workbook and Design Patterns in C#. It covers the same 23 Continue reading Review – Design Patterns in Java
User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn. Addison-Wesley, 2004. This book is all about user stories, focused on the XP-style customer or the Scrum-style product owner (although programmers and others should know this material as well). Mike describes what stories are, how Continue reading Review – User Stories Applied