From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Replacement for Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering"
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:00:04 +0200
Date: 2006-08-15T16:00:04+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irkuumjf.fsf@nbi.dk> (raw)
I was considering to use Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering" book
for one of my courses, when I unfortunately found out that two of its
important advantages have been removed in the most recent editions;
Ada has been replaced by Java, and Z has been replaced by UML.
That's _not_ fun. So which text-books can you suggest as a
replacement?
The goals of the course is to introduce the students to problem
analysis, specification and design. The book should preferably cover
both centralised and distributed systems.
I prefer to use a book which is has a wider aim than just object
oriented design and programming. Strong specifications and
standardised languages (such as Ada and Z) are favoured to weak typing
and unstandardised languages.
I liked the 5th edition of "Software Engineering", but it is
apparently not available anymore.
Greetings,
Jacob
--
"simply because no one had discovered a cure for the universe as a
whole - or rather the only one that did exist had been abolished"
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2006-08-15 14:00 Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2006-08-15 17:26 ` Replacement for Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering" Georg Bauhaus
2006-08-15 19:01 ` kevin cline
2006-08-16 15:57 ` adaworks
2006-08-24 14:29 ` Peter Hermann
2006-09-01 6:27 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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