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Title: Software Engineering (6th Edition) by Ian Sommerville ISBN: 0-201-39815-X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 11 August, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $106.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.53 (17 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Worth the paper it's printed on but no more
Comment: I used this book in a 400 level college course on software engineering, and found it to be exceedingly shallow in its coverage of the topic. The work is a worthy attempt at providing a broad overview of the discipline. However, in my estimate it covers too much material in too little space and presents too few practical examples of the type that might be applicable to a "real-world" software project. Further the text only gives lip service to the wide array of tools now available. In all honesty I don't see how any one could give this book more than three starts (apologies to the other reviewers), especially considering that the book is now in its sixth edition.
I was at the used book store recently and had the good fortune of acquiring Stephen R. Schach's excellent book: "Software Engineering with Java." If you are a college professor looking for a course text, I would highly recommend taking a look at this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Informative but not Practical
Comment: I used this book for an introductory course on software engineering. Although the book gives an expansive view of the field, there isn't enough detail or in-depth examples to make it anything more than an academic treatise. I don't feel that I could use much of what I've learned in an actual project - I would have to resort to more specific references.
Now, the premise of having an entire book on software engineering may be more to blame than the clarity or presentation of the material. But software engineering is a practical field, and a software engineering text that doesn't provide practical information isn't useful. For this reason, I cannot give the book a passing grade.
Rating: 2
Summary: Shallow and not using American English
Comment: This book tries to cover way too much information in such a small space leaving topics overly vague and generic.
Further, the author does not use American English, which is fine - when you don't attend an American university. Words such a "modelling" and general sentence structure makes the text distracting and confusing in ways it shouldn't be. If I am going to have trouble reading it, let it be the material and now how the material is presented.
If the book isn't forced upon you by a university, you should consider a different software engineering book if you want details.
Of course, I won't even go into my professor who is using this book - yikes.
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Title: Operating System Concepts (Windows Xp Update) by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter Baer Galvin ISBN: 0471250600 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 08 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $95.95 |
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Title: Designing Maintainable Software by Dennis Smith ISBN: 0387987835 Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Concepts of Programming Languages, Sixth Edition by Robert W. Sebesta ISBN: 0321193628 Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Pub. Date: 24 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $109.00 |
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Title: Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition) by Andrew Tanenbaum ISBN: 0130313580 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 28 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
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Title: The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition by Frederick P. Brooks ISBN: 0201835959 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 02 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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