The Best Software Writing I
โ Scribed by Joel Spolsky
- Book ID
- 127449325
- Publisher
- Apress
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
- ISBN
- 1590595009
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
It's nice having a collection of high-quality writing related to software and the business in one place instead of trawling the Web for it. Meryl K. Evans, meryl. ...an entertaining read with a number of enlightening insights into what I do for a living... The whole book is fantastic though, and you should absolutely pick it up...in dead tree form. This is a book worth checking out, even if you're not a software developer.
With a nod to both the serious and funny sides of technical writing, The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky is an entertaining read and a guide to the technical writing literati.
The Best Software Writing contains writings from:
Ken Arnold Leon Bambrick Michael Bean Rory Blyth Adam Bosworth danah boyd Raymond Chen Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi Cory Doctorow ea_spouse Bruce Eckel Paul Ford Paul Graham John Gruber Gregor Hohpe Ron Jeffries Eric Johnson Eric Lippert Michael Lopp Larry Osterman Mary Poppendieck Rick Schaut Aaron Swart Clay Shirky Eric Sink why the lucky stiff
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