Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer

Abstract: How the software industry has improved its quality and efficiency.

Keywords: book review, software, consulting, management, project management, programming, electronic digital computers, United States.

Title: Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer Author: Edward Yourdon Publisher: Prentice Hall Date Published: October 1997 ISBN: 0139561609 LOCN: QA76.6.Y6682 1998 Dewey: 005.1 21 Pages: 318 Bibliography: 72 Footnotes: 211 Figures: 25

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CONTENTS

Preface

Part One: Decline & Fall, Reexamined

Chapter 1: The Original Premise

Chapter 2: Peopleware

Chapter 3: The Other Silver Bullets

Part Two: Repaving Cowpaths

Chapter 4: System Dynamics

Chapter 5: Personal Software Practices

Chapter 6: Best Practices

Chapter 7: Good-Enough Software

Part Three: The Brave New World

Chapter 8: Service Systems

Chapter 9: The Internet

Chapter 10: Java and the New Internet Programming Paradigm

Chapter 11: The Microsoft Paradigm

Chapter 12: Embedded Systems and Brave New Worlds

Chapter 13: Past, Present, and Future

Appendix: An Updated Programmer's Bookshelf

Barnes and Noble say:

"Ed Yourdon warned the American programmer in his award-winning, controversial bestseller Decline and Fall of the American Programmer that if they did not change, the industry would migrate to countries that were more productive. The software industry has responded to this challenge, and Yourdon shows how in this long-awaited paperback version of his international bestseller."

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DATA

Author:        Yourdon, Edward.
Title:         Rise & resurrection of the American programmer /
                  Edward Yourdon.
Published:     Upper Saddle River, NJ : Yourdon Press, c1998.
Description:   xv, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series:        Yourdon Press computing series
LC Call No.:   QA76.6.Y6682 1998
Dewey No.:     005.1 21
ISBN:          0139561609 (alk. paper)
Notes:         Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects:      Electronic digital computers -- United States --
                  Programming.
Control No.:   97031107 

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