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From: jxh@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Cynic's Guide, part 5:  Bookshelf
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Date: 12 May 88 17:29:47 GMT
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My bookshelf contains, among others, this notable title under

Software Engineering:
  Reliable Software through Composite Design, Glenford J. Meyers, VNR 1975

It has much about modules, module coupling, module strength, and decomposition
of a project into modules.  When I took an untrained programmer under my
wing, and we were going to use Modula-2, I made him read this book.  It has
the depth and breadth that Wirth's language specification, perforce, cannot
contain, and it is very good medicine for programmers just starting out.
C programmers, especially, should understand the inherent module coupling
that the language allows (enforces?) so that they can behave without having
to rely on the compiler to tell them what's wrong (which it won't).  It's
not limited to Modula-2 at all!

I also must second the nomination of:
  The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg, VNR 1971.

Jim Hickstein, VSAT Systems, San Jose, CA (408) 435-8016
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