SE350 – Personal Software Engineering Resource List

Books

• Code Complete 2 , Steve McConnell    (Books 24x7)
• The C Programming Language,  Kernighan & Ritchie
• Agile Web Development with Rails, Hunt & Hansson
• The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
• Professional Software Development, Steve McConnell
• Personal Software Process, Watts Humphrey
• The Art of Unix Programming, Eric Raymond
• Writing Solid Code, Steve Maguire
• Clean Code, Bob Martin

• Code Quality – The Open Source Perspective, Diomidis Spinellis
• C for Java Programmers, Thomas Muldner
• Thinking in C++, Vol 1 & 2 Bruce Eckel (available online)
• C++ for Java Programmers, Mark Allen Weiss
• C++ for Java Programmers, Timothy Budd

Articles / Blogs

• “Who Cares About Software Construction?", McConnell - http://www.stevemcconnell.com/ieeesoftware/bp01.htm
• “Joel on Software” - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

• “The Perils of Java Schools” - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html
• “Advice for Computer Science College Students” - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CollegeAdvice.html

• “The Privilege and Responsibility of Software Development”, Grady Booch - http://www.se.rit.edu/~se350/resources/Booch-Privileage-Responsibility.pdf
• Coding Forever” (interesting career advice, written in 1999) - http://www.ddj.com/184411163
• Computer Languages History - http://www.levenez.com/lang/
• Programming Languages Timeline - http://www.oreilly.com/news/graphics/prog_lang_poster.pdf

Linux Commands & Tools

• Unix/Linux
• Linux Tools Summary (online PDF)
• SuperMan (online man pages for commands)
• Commands: http://files.fosswire.com/2007/08/fwunixref.pdf
• Compressing Files Cheat Sheet : http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/question/general/compress-file-unix-linux-cheat-sheet.php
• Compressing a Unix/Linux Directory: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-compress-a-whole-linux-or-unix-directory/
• Bash Beginner's guide (pdf)
• Advanced Bash scripting guide
• Git
• Official Git site: http://git-scm.com/
• Git Refernce: http://gitref.org/
• Subversion (SVN)
• (Commands, Usage, Tips): http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Subversion.html
• The SVN Red Bean book is the definitive source for anything SVN, including hooks and other built-in utilities.
• The Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing : http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html
• VI Editor
• Mastering the VI editor (many tutorials available): http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html
• VI Cheat Sheet (basic commands): http://www.kcomputing.com/pdf/kcvi.pdf
• VI Cheat Sheet (all commands): http://130.70.82.204/250/linuxunix/vi-cheat.pdf
• VIM (VI iMproved) Editor:
• VIM Documentation: http://www.vim.org/docs.php
• VIM Reference Manual: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/help.html#reference_toc
• Nano Editor: http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/nano.html

C / C++ Programming

• Hello World! - http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/gccintro_9.html
• http://www.c-faq.com
• http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html (C & C++ reference sites & tutorials)
• http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/ctutor.html (list of tutorials)
• http://www.its.strath.ac.uk/courses/c/tableofcontents3_1.html (self-taught tutorial)
• http://home.netcom.com/~tjensen/ptr/cpoint.htm (pointer tutorial)
• http://www.difranco.net/cop2220/op-prec.htm ( C Order of Precedence Table)
• http://www.oualline.com/style/index.html (C Elements of Style published by M&T books in 1992)
• http://www.computer-books.us/c.php (downloadable C books)
• http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs123/javatoc.htm (C++ for Java from Brown - online tutorial for transitioning from Java to C++)
• Learning C from Java (online PDF)
• C Standard Library at CPlusPlus (online)
• C Standard Library Synopsis (online

Ruby

• http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
• http://www.rubycentral.com/
• http://www.caliban.org/ruby/rubyguide.shtml
• http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/ruby-tutorial.html (resource list)
• http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ (Hunt & Thomas book – 2000)
• http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Little-Book-Of-Ruby (book download, samples)
• ruby-mode.el (for Emacs)
• dotemacsforruby.txt (for Emacs)

Rails

• Rails Main Site
• Rails for Zombies
• Rails Guides (see especially Getting Started With Rails)
• Rolling with Ruby on Rails (Part 1 and Part 2)
• Rails for Beginners
• Ruby on Rails Tutorial
• http://www.rubyonrails.org/
• http://www.radrails.org/
• http://hivelogic.com/narrative/articles/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger (step-by-step Mac installation)
• http://cocoamysql.sourceforge.net/ (MySQL editor for Mac)

Unit Testing

• http://www.se.rit.edu/~se350/JUnit.pdf
• http://www.se.rit.edu/~se350/LoveUnitTesting.pdf
• http://simplectest.sourceforge.net/ (C Unit testing tool used in class activity)
• http://cunit.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.junit.org/index.htm