The Programmers' Stone by Alan Carter, Colston Sanger -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface Thinking about Thinking

Roots of the Approach Mapping and Software Engineering Mapping and TQM Mandate Yourself! The Undiscovered Country Knowledge Packets, Daydreams, Maps and Understanding Mappers and Packers How to Regain Mapping The Ways of Mappers and Packers Packing as a Self-Sustaining Condition The Mapper/Packer Communication Barrier

Thinking about Programming

What is Software Engineering For? Software Engineering is Distributed Programming What is Programming? Programming is a Mapper's Game General Tips on Mapping

Problem Quake Incremental vs Catastrophic Change Boundaries Explore Permutations Work Backwards Plate Spinning Ease Off Break Loops Fault to Swapping Duvet Stuffing

Mapping and the Process Angels, Dragons and the Philosophers' Stone Literary Criticism and Design Patterns Cognitive Atoms The Quality Plateau Knowledge, Not KLOCS Good Composition and Exponential Benefits

The Programmer at Work

Approaches, Methodologies, Languages How to Write Documents

User Requirements Document Software Requirements Document Architectural Design Document Detailed Design Document Test Plan

The Knight's Fork The Personal Layered Process To See the World in a Line of Code Conceptual Integrity Mood Control Situation Rehearsals

Customs and Practices

The Codeface Leads Who Stole My Vole? Reviews and Previews Code Inspections and Step Checks Coding Standards and Style Guides Meaningful Metrics

Descriptive Science Experimental Science Cybernetic Technology

Attitude to Tools Software Structures are Problem Structures Root Cause Analysis

Unconnected Operational Ergonomic Procedural

Complexity Matching and Incremental Boildown The Infinite Regress of `Software Architectures' The Quality Audit

Design Principles

Simple and Robust Environments System Types

Monolithic Client-Server Interactive Batch Event Driven Data Driven Opportunistic Dead Reckoning Convergent Wavefront Retrospective

Error Handling - a Program's Lymphatic System Modalism and Combinatorical Explosion Avoid Representative Redundancy Look at the State of That! The Reality of the System as an Object Memory Leak Detectors Timeouts Design for Test Dates, Money, Units and the Year 2000 Security

Prudence and Safety

Brain Overload Brain Overrun Overwork Cultural Interface Management Individual Responsibility and Leadership The False Goal of Deskilling Escape Roads New Member Integration

Some Weird Stuff

Richard Feynman George Spencer-Brown Physics Textbook as Cultural Construct

Principia Red Books Advanced Level Physics

Are Electrons Conscious? Teilhard de Chardin and Vernor Vinge Society of Mind Mapping and Mysticism Mapping and ADHD How The Approach Developed Complexity Cosmology The Prisoners' Dilemma, Freeware and Trust Predeterminism

The Programmers' Stone Stoned! Sites, User Reports, Additional Materials, Links and References

Stoned! Sites User Reports Additional Materials Links References

Adams, Scott The Dilbert Future Brookes, Frederick P. The Mythical Man-Month DeMarco, Tom & Lister, Timothy Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams Degrace, Peter & Stahl, Leslie Hulet The Olduvai Imperative Feynman, Richard P. Feynman Lectures on Computation Gamma, Erich et. al. Design Patterns: Elements of reusable Object-Oriented Software Goldratt, Eliyahu M & Cox, Jeff The Goal Goldratt, Eliyahu M. It's Not Luck Hohmann, Luke Journey of the Software Professional Levy, Steven Hackers Naur, Peter Computing: A Human Activity Schwartz, Howard S. Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline Spencer-Brown, George Laws of Form Weinberg, Gerald M. The Psychology of Computer Programming White, Michael Isaac Newton - The Last Sorcerer Yourdon, Edward Decline and Fall of the American Programmer