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Title: Structured Analysis and System Specification by Tom Demarco, P. J. Plauger ISBN: 0-13-854380-1 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 11 May, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $78.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Changed the way I look at programming
Comment: This book offers data flow as a simple and powerful metaphor for programming. The idea is this: look at a program as a black box that takes information in and spews information out, then at each stage refine this black box by breaking it out into individual ones. I read this book many years ago and it remains the most useful book on program design that I have read. It was written before object oriented programming but it adapts to it in an obvious way. Forget about UML. Data flow is the best way of presenting the elusive big picture view, that view of the forest that gets obscured by all those trees. It has the following virtues offered nowhere else: 1. It serves as a design tool that you can work with and refine to identify object classes. 2. It is easily understood by computer illiterate clients. 3. It allows programmers new to a project to quickly come up to speed.
Rating: 4
Summary: Now I understand what college tried to teach!
Comment: Many of the concepts adressed in Systems Analysis and Design classes are explained here in an easy to read and easy to understand format. The concepts are backed up with examples that help the reader to conceptualize the main points. I used to struggle with what I though I learned from my college classes, this book turned on the light!
Rating: 5
Summary: A classic and worth the price
Comment: If I had to own one book on software design, this would be it. Everywhere I've taken it, people have wondered if some of the examples were "their company." It was introduced to me by a former boss and is easily worth 10x the price of all the courses in "design" I had. Most design is done backwards. DeMarco explains why that is.
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Title: Modern Structured Analysis (Yourdon Press Computing Series) by Edward Yourdon ISBN: 0135986249 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 01 August, 1988 List Price(USD): $78.67 |
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Title: Practical Guide to Structured Systems Design (2nd Edition) by Meilir Page-Jones ISBN: 0136907695 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 04 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $93.32 |
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Title: Structured Design: Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and Systems Design by Edward Yourdon ISBN: 0138544719 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 01 March, 1979 List Price(USD): $94.00 |
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Title: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications (2nd Edition) by Grady Booch ISBN: 0805353402 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $64.99 |
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Title: Object Oriented Analysis (2nd Edition) by Peter Coad, Edward Yourdon ISBN: 0136299814 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $71.99 |
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