On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Kirrily Robert wrote: > Oh, if we're heading *that* way, here are some "software project > management and survival" type books that I think are classics: > > Peopleware, by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister > Death March, by Ed Yourdon
We had a textbook on object oriented design by Yourdon, but the class was fall 1999 and he was getting moderately famous at the time for being a Y2K paranoiac, so no one in the class -- including the professor -- could take anything he said or wrote all that seriously. Most of the assignments and exam questions & answers would sneak in some kind of jibe about "well if I was designing an object oriented non-electronic bunker..." I don't recall anyone mentioning Jakob Nielsen's books, particularly _Designing Web Usability_, but it deserves a place on the list. Ditto _The C Programming Language_, which again I may have missed mention of. And if the list isn't strictly confined to computery books, _Flatland_. At the advice of recent threads on (void) & L.pm, I have just returned from the library with copies of _Einstein's Dreams_ by Alan Lightman (which I'm rereading because someone borrowed & lost my original copy), _The Elegant Universe_ by Brian Greene, and _QED_ by Richard Feynmann. But I might end up reading _Me Talk Pretty Some Day_ by David Sedaris first. Depends which of science or humor ends up winning the CFT battle :) -- Chris Devers "People with machines that think, will in times of crisis, make up stuff and attribute it to me" - "Nikla-nostra-debo"
