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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a280575ddd816d06 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-11 02:44:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!teaser.fr!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "M. A. Alves" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Learning to Engineer. Where to begin? Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:43:35 +0000 (GMT) Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 994844663 17441 137.194.161.2 (11 Jul 2001 09:44:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:44:23 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-X-Sender: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9781 Date: 2001-07-11T10:43:35+00:00 > The process of Engineering a piece of software is something I'd like to learn > in-depth. The question is, what materials should I invest in which would > give me a good return on that investment? > > I've ordered the complete set of "The Art of Programming" books by Donald > Knuth, and the "Dragon" books by Aho. These are very fine books, but not of software engineering. > I'm also spending alot of time over at the SEI site, reading any > articles there I can get my hands on. The articles may be too specialised for a beginner. Start with a software engineering "textbook" to get an overview of the techniques, _then_ study one of them in dept (then another, then another... ;-) The textbook on my shelf is Software Engineering : An Engineering Approach / James F. Peters ; Witold Pedrycz. -- Wiley, 2000. -- xviii, 702 p. -- (ISBN 0-471-18964-2) Of course there are others, maybe better ones. Before buying take a look at a software engineering curriculum, to get a sense of the different aspects and denotations of the term, and compare the tables of contents of the books. For example my book is weak in object-oriented development, altough this can be an important curricular item. Good luck. -- , M A R I O data miner, LIACC, room 221 tel 351+226078830, ext 121 A M A D O Rua Campo Alegre, 823 fax 351+226003654 A L V E S P-4150 PORTO, Portugal mob 351+939354002