Information about software engineering

There is no course textbook. 

There are a huge number of books on software development, but many of the recent books are about specific methodologies or development environments rather than discussions of general principles. For practical programming I rely almost entirely on online tutorials, technical documentation, and help forums.

Online sources

Here are some sites that I use regularly.

• Wikipedia is a good source for definitions and discussions for many of the topics discussed in the course.

• w3schools has excellent tutorials and reference materials for almost every aspect of web development.

• For developing mobile apps, there is comprehensive documentation for Android and iOS provided by Google and Apple and tutorials for how to get started. Except for the tutorials, do not try to read this documentation continuously. Search to find a topic and explore from there.

• Stack Overflow is a language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers. I encourage you to submit your questions and to provide answers for others.

Online sources

Here are some books that I find useful:

• Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month. Addison Wesley, 1972. This is the classical text on software engineering. It is short, witty and still relevant after forty years.

• Sommerville, Ian, Software Engineering, Ninth Edition. Addison Wesley, 2010.

• Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence, Software Engineering Theory and Practice, fourth edition.  Prentice Hall 2009. 

• Grady Booch, Robert A. Maksimchuk, Michael W. Engel, and Bobbi J. Young, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications, third edition. Benjamin/Cummings 2007.

• Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, The Unified Modeling Language, second edition. Addison Wesley 2005.

• Rob Pooley, Perdita Stevens, Using UML Software Engineering with Objects and Components, second edition. Addison-Wesley 2006.

• Christopher Fox, Introduction to Software Engineering Design. Addison Wesley, 2006.

• Bernd Bruegge and Allen H. Dutoit, Object-Oriented Software Engineering Using UML, Patterns and Java, third edition. Prentice Hall, 2009.

• Mary Shaw and David Garlan, Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline. Prentice Hall, 1996.

• E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, and J. Vlissides, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison Wesley, 1994. This is the standard book on design patterns.

• Mike Cohn, Succeeding with Agile. Addison Wesley, 2010.