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Agile/XP Book Freely Available

Posted by timothy on from the at-own-risk dept.

Kent Tong writes "In 2002, we, the Macau Productivity and Technology Center (CPTTM), started to hold courses on XP and OO design to teach the skills in agile development. At the beginning, we hired a well known software training and consulting company in US to teach. While the instructor was very professional and instructive and the feedbacks from the students were very good, the students didn't acquire the skills taught." After revising the content of the course and adding real-world examples, the company says the materials are now more useful, and have put them online for free download in the form of a book, Essential Skills for Agile Development.

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  1. Not Creative Commons licensed, sadly... by byolinux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Given they want to make it free download for non-commercial use only, it would have been really nice (and sensible, too) to publish under a Creative Commons license.

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  2. Very good by Manan+Shah · · Score: 2, Interesting

    THis is a very good book, judging by the first few chapters. I think a lot of people new to programming don't realize how important it is to write PROPER code, which is much more important than just writing any code. I would have liked this to be more general, but defiantly a good-read for any programmer.