Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!caesar.cs.montana.edu!ogccse!orstcs!mist!rpandey From: rpandey@mist.cs.orst.edu (Rajeev Pandey) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: List of Soft. Engg. Books Message-ID: <14094@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 89 17:26:02 GMT Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: rpandey@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Rajeev Pandey) Distribution: comp Organization: Oregon State Univ. -- Computer Science Lines: 41 > For that matter, if anyone has any reading list recommendations they > would like to suggest, I would be interested in hearing of them. > I am looking first for general background info, and then also > anything considered seminal, the "must-reads" which get the most attention. > > I second that! I came out of school with a BA in Math/CS, > : > Anyway, I would be interested in seeing a Software Engineering > reading list so that I can learn more about it. Edward Yourdon (a Software Engineer of repute (his columns/books are well-read)), has a technical report on just this: "The 68 Best Software Books" Technical Report TR-7 (September 1988) by Edward Yourdon It is available free upon written request from: Edward Yourdon American Programmer 161 West 86th Street New York, NY 10024 (212)-769-9460 18 of the listed books have been reviwed in his journal "American Programmer", the reviews are included as well. There are some really interesting books on this list, like F.P. Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month" (of course), "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig, Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions",etc. Most of the rest sound like pretty hard-core software engineering books, though :-). -- Department of Computer Science | Rajeev Pandey Computer Science Building 100 | Internet: rpandey@cs.orst.edu Oregon State University | UUCP: {tektronix, hp-pcd}!orstcs!rpandey Corvallis, OR 97331-3902 U.S.A. | Phone:(503) 737-3273 Fax: (503) 737-3014 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com