This collection of essays explores the role of creativity in the construction of software, with a focus on polarities of viewpoint, such as: discipline versus flexibility, formal methods versus heuristics, quantitative versus qualitative reasoning, process versus product, intellectual versus clerical activity, theory versus practice, and industry versus academe.
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This collection of essays explores the role of creativity in the construction of software -- with a focus on polarities of viewpoint.
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Robert L. Glass held his first job in computing in 1954. Author of over 25 books, he is one of the true pioneers of the software field. He is the editor and publisher of The Software Practitioner newsletter, and has written regular columns for Communications of the ACM, IEEE Software, and Information Systems Management. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. from Linkoping University of Sweden, and in 1999 he was named a Fellow of the ACM professional society. His unique viewpoint and timeless (often contrarian!)writings have for decades offered insights to practitioners, managers, professors, entrepreneurs, researchers, and students alike. Recent books include Software Conflict 2.0 and Software Creativity 2.0, from developer.* Books, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, from Addison-Wesley, and The Dark Dide of Software Engineering, from Wiley/IEEE CS Press.
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Creativity in Software dichotomies,
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This book really looks at software creativity from a number of dichotomies - Ancient Greek (bring your own hammer) v. Rome (Let's build this together), Discipline v. Flexible, Formal v. Heuristics, extrinsic v. intrinsic motivations, science v. art and a number of others. These topics are all addressed in a series of very easy to read essays that takes the reader through the journey of determining what is best.
I found this a very good read and one that I will ponder for sometime.
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