So I found this old book at work and it's been pretty interesting. Understanding the Professional Programmer by Gerald M. Weinberg. Some how I get the feeling it used to be a text book but either way it's the 1982 hard back copy.
I've been reading this book a chapter a day roughly during the work days to get any nuggets of information I can from it. Someone who retired from where I work had made good use of it judging from the book marks.
So far the best thing I found in the book was the Preparation H test for software. It asked a series of questions about programs you may have to maintain. The best question was "Does it give me a pain that only Preparation H can relieve?"
It's safe to say there is gold in them thar old books!
2 comments:
Ha! That is awesome.
Also, I'm glad to know I'm not the only geek who will voluntarily read textbooks.
The book is actually newer then what I thought it was. For some reason I thought it was like late 60's or early 70's. I guess that's mostly because the co-worker who used to work here talked about punch cards, Cobol, etc.
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