From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,76deb91447662022,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Replacement for Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering" Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:00:04 +0200 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: <87irkuumjf.fsf@nbi.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 0x5552efa6.adsl.cybercity.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1155650411 8107 85.82.239.166 (15 Aug 2006 14:00:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: sparre@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:00:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lNU98JwXUWjmXtyBjYaZYl2zOp8= Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!redpower.x-privat.org!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6214 Date: 2006-08-15T16:00:04+02:00 List-Id: 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I unfortunately found out that two of its important advantages have been removed in the most recent editions; Ada has been replaced by Java, and Z has been replaced by UML.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"