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	These reviews have been recommended by readers of Computing Reviews.   Options: All Media Types Journals Proceedings Div Books Whole Books Other Ranking Date Reviewed Title Author Published Date Descending Ascending For the last: 30 days 60 days 90 days 6 months 1 year all time     1-10 of 85 results Ranking   Perspectives on the future of software engineering: essays in honor of Dieter Rombach Münch J., Schmid K., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, Berlin, Germany, 2013. 380 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-642373-94-7) Comparing software engineering to other branches of engineering, in which physical laws have been shown to apply, has been a source of controversy since the term was coined at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conference in 1... 1     Randomness through computation: some answers, more questions Zenil H., Zenil H., World Scientific Publishing Co, Inc., River Edge, NJ, 2011. 440 pp.  Type: Book I couldn’t put this book down. Its presentation of a computational approach to randomness, with its strong focus on applications, is the best I have read. It is carefully edited and comprises several chapters--most o... 2     AspectJ in action: practical aspect-oriented programming Laddad R., Manning Publications Co., Greenwich, CT, 2003. 512 pp.  Type: Book (9781930110939), Reviews: (1 of 2) Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is an emerging paradigm, gaining more and more importance due to the benefits it introduces to conventional programming methodologies. AOP deals with crosscutting concerns, and the concepts it relies o... 3     Numbers and computers Kneusel R., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, Cham, Switzerland, 2015. 231 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319172-59-0) When writing software, we need a full, detailed understanding of how computers work with numbers. Inadequate understanding can have dire consequences. In Numbers and computers, Kneusel mentions two egregious examples: the explos... 4     iWoz: from computer geek to cult icon: how I invented the personal computer, co-founded Apple, and had fun doing it Wozniak S., Smith G., W. W. Norton, New York, NY, 2006. 288 pp.  Type: Book (9780393061437) This charming personal memoir records, in extreme detail, what the author wishes to reveal about his life from 1950 to 2005. Although rambling, and clearly assembled from many long oral recitations, it is, as the author intended, enter... 5     Algorithms (4th ed.) Sedgewick R., Wayne K., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2015. 984 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-134384-68-9) Sedgewick and Wayne’s Algorithms for many years has been the first book of an undergraduate course in programming, yet each of the editions seems to be written as a fresh book. The novelty of this edition is especially... 6     The coder’s path to wealth and independence Beckner M., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2014. 248 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484204-22-1) I was predisposed to hate this book. The title sounds like a cable infomercial, one of those change-your-life sales pitches that snags you in a moment of late-night weakness, only to reveal itself as an embarrassing credit card charge ... 7     Fundamentals of computer graphics Shirley P., Marschner S., A. K. Peters, Ltd., Natick, MA, 2009. 804 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-568814-69-8) The third edition of Shirley and Marschner’s textbook is a nice, general introduction to the most important computer graphics topics. They don’t just provide a good overview of their field; they also provide many ch... 8      Requirements engineering and management for software development projects Chemuturi M., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2013. 287 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-461453-76-5) The regular failure of information technology (IT) projects is a fertile source of material for comedians (and executive management). The common reply is simply that more project management would solve the problem, but this is wearing ... 9     Graph theory and its applications (3rd ed.) Gross J., Yellen J., Anderson M., Chapman&Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2018. 591 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-482249-48-4) Graph theory is one of the most fertile and popular domains in current mathematics research. This is mainly because graphs can be used as coherent models for many problems across almost all disciplines. This book can be viewed as effec... 10         Display 510152550100 per page
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