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In 1992, Yourdon wrote The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer, warning of impending loss of leadership by American software engineers. But a great deal has changed in three years, and Yourdon now sees a complete reversal of many of the trends he previously documented, as well as new trends such as the WWW, Java, "Good Enough" Software, and the enormous impact of Microsoft on the world of software and computing, that together signify the Resurrection of American software engineering.
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Culled from eight years of a column in a professional programming magazine, as one might expect these essays involve fairly advanced levels of programming. The book is primarily concerned with programming, and contains a fair amount of sample code as part of the material. Some sections are suitable for the novice, but relatively few overall. (If I wanted to lower myself to the level of the book jacket designers, I could say something about it being outstanding in its field ...) copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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Although Osman downplays the C tutorial aspects of the book, it does present a solid, albeit fairly condensed, precis of the basics. His primary concern with standards and portability makes for a good structured curriculum: the two aspects are integrated in a seamless whole. The coverage of system concerns and other commercial development factors *is* present, and *is* effective. Oddly, though, topics do not show up in the problems and exercises at the end of the chapter. Otherwise, the questions are quite good, being much superior to the all-too-common reading quizzes. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997
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This book will teach you C++ on the Mac with the Symantec product. It even gives a reprise of C language basics. The object orientation, though, is quite weak. There is lots of OOP (Object- Oriented Programming) jargon, but little direction on the design, use, and re- use of code and classes. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995
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The Java environment is relatively secure, as far as network programming languages go. Java has strong security, but not perfect security. Securing Java explains the known security problems with the language and points out steps that programmers can take to prevent bad guys from taking advantage of their Java-based systems. Authors Gary McGraw and Edward W. Felten begin with the sandbox--the original Java security model. They then explain why the sandbox, while secure, was too restrictive and was combined with a code-signing model in Java 2. After explaining how security ought to work, Securing Java reveals a menagerie of applets that have circumvented Java security to achieve a variety of noisome and damaging ends. The authors reveal enoug... Rest of this review on the detail page
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