Project-Based Software Engineering: An Object-Oriented Approach

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Summary: Unusually Lucid Book on Project Management for the Beginner
Review: Project Management is a fine art - there are Managers that can perform with the finesse of a Vivaldi piece or rumble like a rhino in a china store.

This is an unusually fine introduction to Project Management(PM). I have read a fair number of books on this subject and this offers a gentle start without too much fluff.

I would recommend this book to those who wish to learn more on PM and are just starting out.

In this book you can expect to have an overview of the acronyms and salient points of PM - Keeping in mind that this book is a start to the learning curve. Once you have mastered the start - there are other materials that can assist you to dig deeper. But in PM nothing beats experience.

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions on this review.

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Summary: great book
Review: This book was great--I think that anyone who wants to do more than just sit down and start coding, anyone who wants to understand how to actually design code so that it does what you and your users actually want it to do will find this book to be one of the best written on the market.

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Summary: great book
Review: This is an incredibly annoying and useless text. I had to use this particular travesty of a book for a software engineering course and I got nothing out of it.
The title of the book is an absolute misnomer. The term "software engineering" tends to imply that the text would be of some use in a computer science course in which a fair amount of coding is involved. However, you should expect nothing of the sort from this thing. All that you'll find in this text is list after list of silly terms that have absolutely no bearing on the subject of object-oriented software design. This is a book for those individuals who will end up as managers - those that don't have the ability to write code but who nevertheless feel that they should be in computer science. It's simply a waste of paper that would be more at home in a soft management course in some third tier business school.

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Summary: A book that should have never been written
Review: This is an incredibly annoying and useless text. I had to use this particular travesty of a book for a software engineering course and I got nothing out of it.
The title of the book is an absolute misnomer. The term "software engineering" tends to imply that the text would be of some use in a computer science course in which a fair amount of coding is involved. However, you should expect nothing of the sort from this thing. All that you'll find in this text is list after list of silly terms that have absolutely no bearing on the subject of object-oriented software design. This is a book for those individuals who will end up as managers - those that don't have the ability to write code but who nevertheless feel that they should be in computer science. It's simply a waste of paper that would be more at home in a soft management course in some third tier business school.