Resources

Books

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas.
• Software Project Survival Guide ,by Steve McConnell.
• Code Complete, 2nd ed., by Steve McConnell.(Chapter 5: Design in Construction is available free.)
• Rapid Development, by Steve McConnell.
• Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, by Alan Shalloway and James Trott.

Books on reserve at the UW Library

• The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
• Software Project Survival Guide, Steve McConnell
• Rapid Development, by Steve McConnell

Articles and Web sites

• Project Ideas and Presentations
• Ideas for startups (Grahme)
• Past 403 Project Ideas
• Presenters University - Presentation Tips
• Software Development Process and Practice
• Anchoring the Software Process, Barry Boehm, USC, 1995. [citeseer.ist.psu.edu/boehm95anchoring.html]
• Joel Spolsky Site. Tips, checklists, and opinions (not universally agreed on) on software engineering practices based on experience.
• Construx software engineering consultants, project survival guide. Holds a number of good references and templates.
• Net Objectives software engineering consultants. Also holds a number of good references
• Steve McConnell Site.Good resources and papers/columns on software projects and practices.
• Pragmatic Programmer Tips
• Chapter 1, Agile Practices, by Robert C. Martin
• Good Enough Quality: Beyond the Buzzword by James Bach
• Specifications
• Software Requirements Specification Template adapted from Construx template.
• Painless Functional Specs, by Joel Spolsky
• Alistair Cockburn web site - Use Cases
• Architecture and Design
• Software Architecture, by David Garlan.
• On the Criteria to Be Used When Decomposing a System into Modules, by David Parnas.
• Code Complete, Chapter 5: Design in Construction, by Steve McConnell
• Emergent Design: Evolving Systems with High Efficiency and Low Risk, by Scott Bain, Net Objectives
• Testing
• Daily build/smoke test
• If You Didn't Test It, It Doesn't Work, by Bob Colwell.
• How Do You Spell Testing? - A Mnemonic to Jump-Start Testing, by James Bach.
  
• Extreme Programming
• Extreme Programming Site. A newer way to go about software engineering.
• Is design dead? by Martin Fowler
• All I really need to know about pair programming I learned in kindergarten by Laurie Williams: Good introduction to why you would use pair programming.
• Production Programming in the Classroom Charlie Reis, an author, is a grad student here at UW. The paper talks about experience using DrJava, open source, and extreme programming in the classroom.
• Estimation
• Estimation Basics by Kathleen Peters, Software Productivity Center
• Cocomo II Reference Manual
• Cocomo II overview by The Code Project
• Cocomo II overview by SoftStar Systems
• Cocomo II quick calculator by CMS4 Site Group
• Cocomo II calculator with factors by USC
• CodeCount tool to count sloc (open source from USC)
• GeroneSoft code count tool to count sloc (free trial)