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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a280575ddd816d06,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-10 23:48:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.mi.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "McDoobie" Subject: Learning to Engineer. Where to begin? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Organization: The Caffinated Corps. User-Agent: Pan/0.8.1beta4 (Unix) X-No-Productlinks: Yes Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 06:47:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.0.109.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.mi.home.com 994834077 24.0.109.49 (Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:47:57 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:47:57 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9772 Date: 2001-07-11T06:47:57+00:00 List-Id: Lately I'm really beginning to notice that there is a world of difference between "programming" and "Software Engineering". Theres alot more thought, design, and patience involved in the latter. Naturally, it seems to produce vastly superior software. 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. I'm also spending alot of time over at the SEI site, reading any articles there I can get my hands on. What else should I check out? Any suggestions? Any advice? Laters. McDoobie chris@dont.spam.me