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Consider getting a call from someone to ask if you can send them a dress. When you hang up you realize that in the context of the situation you assumed it was “a dress” but later you realize that there was some ambiguity and perhaps they meant “address”.
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Steve discusses costs associated with iterative and sequential development approaches. He presents many good best practices and charts in Chapter 3 worth reviewing but comes down to these 6 factors that influence software methodology for the project.
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The next sections are fairly straight-forward. Here’s a summary of some of the keypoints: Without a good problem definition, you might spend a lot of time solving the wrong problem … and never solve the right one. Requirements enable the user to
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In answer to the question from last week’s section , according to Code Complete, software construction can account for up to 65% of the total project cost! One of the challenges we all face is working on a team with others. Typically others on your team
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Our Technical Book Club is underway with our first book Code Complete , but it’s never too late to join! Some people have written to ask how to get involved, so I thought I’d pull together a post. Buy, beg, or borrow : Code Complete: A Practical
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Code Complete is all about Software Construction. What? You probably never faced a course on software construction in school … or did you. Some key points from this chapter: Software Construction includes detailed design, coding, debugging,
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My husband was a philosopher before becoming a computer scientist and uses the following metaphor to describe his work in failure locality. Think back to Christmas time prior to the 80s. Remember decorating the tree or the house with long strands
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The first book for our technical book club will be Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell. Why did I choose Code Complete? In conversations with recent college grads and college students, there are
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The first book we’re reading for our Technical Book Club is Code Complete. Order it today if you want to read along. I’ll provide summaries and insights as we go along. Here are some other book recommendations and books I'm considering for this year for
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When I was in college, I didn’t really know what books to read outside of class. Internships can often help out a lot with this to get a feel for what others are reading and these days there are some great online lists from technical role models.
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