BookList

Your additions, edits and corrections are welcome. -- ToddCoram

July 1997

• Solve Your Child's SleepProblems, Richard Ferber
• OutdoorGamesForTrainers, Carmine M. Consalvo
• UnderstandingComics, Scott McCloud?
• HowToSolveIt, G.Polya

• OnLisp; Advanced Techniques for CommonLisp?, PaulGraham?
• ProgrammingOnPurpose, PjPlauger?

• DeathMarch, Edward Yourdon
• DesigningPascalSolutions, Michael Clancy and Marcia Linn
• KnOts, by R. D. Laing

• The MythicalManMonth, FredBrooks?, Jr.
• The QualitySoftwareManagement series, GeraldWeinberg
• ClockworkOrange, by AnthonyBurgess?

• PleaseUnderstandMe, David Keirsey & Marilyn Bates
• DataModelPatterns, David C. Hay
• TheMoralAnimal, Robert Wright
• ThePsychologyOfComputerProgramming, GeraldWeinberg
• InformationOverload, Jerrold M. Grochow

• AboutFace, AlanCooper
• MetaphorAndOrganizations, ed. David Grant and Cliff Oswick

• JourneyOftheSoftwareProfessional, LukeHohmann
• ThePracticalCogitator

• SmalltalkBestPracticePatterns, KentBeck.
• AwhackOnTheSideOfTheHead, by RogerVonOech?.
• BeyondProgramming, Bruce I. Blum.
• HowSoftwareSystemsLearn, D'NarbTrawets?
• Lessons from TheArtOfJuggling, Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan. A book about learning, thinly disguised as a book about learning to juggle.
• TeamThink, Ava S. Butler gives 72 ways to make good, smart, quick decisions in a meeting

Patterns & Architecture

• TimelessWayOfBuilding, ChristopherAlexander
• PatternLanguage, ChristopherAlexander, et. al.
• HowBuildingsLearn, StewartBrand?
• Home: A ShortHistoryOfAnIdea, WitoldRybczynski
• LookingAround?, WitoldRybczynski
• TheMostBeautifulHouseInTheWorld, WitoldRybczynski
• TheColorandGeometryofVeryEarlyTurkishCarpets, ChristopherAlexander
• SystemsArchitecting, Eberhardt Rechtin

• HowSoftwareSystemsLearn, D'NarbTrawets?
• PatternLanguagesOfProgramDesign
  • Volume 1, JimCoplien & DougSchmidt, eds.
  • Volume 2, JohnVlissides, JimCoplien, and NormKerth, eds.
• DesignPatterns: Elements of Reusable ..., GangOfFour (Gamma et. al.)
• DesignPatternsForOOSD, WolfgangPree?
• SoftwarePatterns (A Management Briefing), JimCoplien, SIGS Publications
• AnalysisPatterns, MartinFowler
• SucceedingWithObjects, Goldberg and Rubin. Not really patterns, but frameworks. Still useful though.
• PatternsOfSoftware, RichardGabriel
• OpenDocPatterns?, Robert Tycast and Kirk Searls (has anyone checked this out yet?)
• SmalltalkBestPracticePatterns, KentBeck.
• DesigningPascalSolutions, Michael Clancy and Marcia Linn

• TheLanguageInstinct. Steven Pinker
• Metapatterns, AcrossSpaceTimeandMind. Tyler Volk
• WomenWhoRunWithTheWolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• TheAbileneParadox, Jerry B. Harvey
• PleaseUnderstandMe, David Keirsey & Marilyn Bates
• KnOts, by R. D. Laing

Hints & Style

• The ElementsOfProgrammingStyle, KernighanAndPlauger?
• The ElementsOfFriendlySoftwareDesign?, PaulHeckel?.
• TheVisualDisplayOfQuantitativeInformation, EdwardTufte
• EnvisioningInformation, EdwardTufte
• MacIsNotTypewriter, RobinWilliams
• ProgrammingPearls, JonBentley?
• The PyschologyOfEverydayThings, by DonNorman
• ThinkingForth, LeoBrodie
• Want to improve your writing skills? Try:
  • RevisingBusinessProse by Richard Lanham, Macmillan, 1992
  • BugsInWriting by Lyn Dupre
  • The ElementsOfStyle?, Strunk and White
  • Style, Joseph Williams
  • WritingBroadside, a chapter in PatternsOfSoftware
• SmalltalkWithStyle?, SuzanneSkublics?, reviewed off-site[1]

• AwhackOnTheSideOfTheHead, by RogerVonOech?.
• CreativityAsAnExactScience?, G. S. Altshuller
• ConceptualBlockbusting?, James L. Adams
• The MythicalManMonth, FredBrooks?
• The OriginOfConsciousness ..., JulianJaynes?
• ThePassionOfTheWesternMind, RichardTarnas?
• ThePracticalCogitator
• MetaphorsWeLiveBy, LakoffAndJohnson
• TheBookOfThink, Marilyn Burns
• FluidConceptsAndCreativeAnalogies[2], DouglasHofstadter
• BringingDesignToSoftware edited by Terry Winograd presents some good discussions about how we software professionals should pay attention to ideas from other disciplines of design.
• Lessons from TheArtOfJuggling, Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan. A book about learning, thinly disguised as a book about learning to juggle.
• A Mind Map Book, one of Tony Buzan's many books on MindMapping
• HowToSolveIt, G. Polya on Problem Solving and Teaching Mathematics

Computer Books That Reference Software Patterns Stuff

• TheEssentialDistributedObjectsSurvivalGuide?, by Orfali, Harkey, and Edwards
• LargeScaleCppSoftwareDesign?, by John Lakos
• ObjectSolutions?, Grady Booch
• ObjectOrientedDesignHeuristics?, Authur Riel
• InformationOverload, Jerrold M. Grochow
• CORBADesignPatterns, Thomas Mowbray & Raphael Malveau

Computer Books That Reference ChristopherAlexander or his Pattern Language

• TheEssentialDistributedObjectsSurvivalGuide?, by Orfali, Harkey, and Edwards
• PeopleWare?, by DeMarco? and Lister
• BringingDesignToSoftware edited by Terry Winograd presents some good discussions about how we software professionals should pay attention to ideas from other disciplines of design.

Computer Books

• LiterateProgramming, by DonaldKnuth?
• BeyondProgramming, Bruce I. Blum.
• FramingSoftwareReuse, Paul G. Bassett. Lessons from the real world with Dilbert cartoons.
• AboutFace, AlanCooper
• ThePsychologyOfComputerProgramming, GeraldWeinberg
• DeathMarch, Edward Yourdon. Bad software projects: why they happen, when to leave, and how to survive if you can't leave.
• OnLisp; Advanced Techniques for CommonLisp?, PaulGraham?

• OnLisp; Advanced Techniques for CommonLisp?, PaulGraham?
• TheArtOfWare: Sun Szu's Classic work reinterpreted for software, BruceWebster?
• ProgrammingOnPurpose, PjPlauger?

• OutdoorGamesForTrainers, Carmine M. Consalvo

None of the Above (but recommended)

• House, Tracy Kidder describes the building of a new house, and the tensions between its Designer, its Builders, and the Client--problems analogous to those found in many software projects.
  • (Also by Tracy Kidder) The Soul of a New Machine; Tracy Kidder explores what it is to be an engineer, and how engineering teams operate. I've found a lot of correlation between the organizational patterns and antipatterns on these pages to what goes on in the pages of this book. For instance, CompetitiveDevelopment in the building of a simulator, and in the designing of the computer itself.

• TheMoralAnimal, Robert Wright: an examination of human behavior as it may have been influenced by natural selection
• UnderstandingComics, Scott McCloud?: Wonderful comic book about understanding comics (and visual communication in general!).

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