The description is taken from McConnell's new book "After the Gold Rush", subtitled "Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering". I recommend the book (as well as his other efforts), and can report that the description is given as a warning, not as an ideal. McConnell advocates elevating our trade by subscribing to set standards and ethics. He argues that we either do so ourselves, or wait for the government to dictate it. After all the money that was spent on Y2K, how long will it be until legislation is introduced requiring coders to be licensed?
I also found PSR well-written and very helpful. It described formally many practices which I had been trying to understand intuitively. It offers a very clear way of explaining what is expected of a piece of software. It also offers some guidance on elicting requirements from users. In a similar vein, I can recommend the guidelines of the Extreme Programming group (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgrammingRoadmap) .
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The description is taken from McConnell's new book "After the Gold Rush", subtitled "Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering". I recommend the book (as well as his other efforts), and can report that the description is given as a warning, not as an ideal. McConnell advocates elevating our trade by subscribing to set standards and ethics. He argues that we either do so ourselves, or wait for the government to dictate it. After all the money that was spent on Y2K, how long will it be until legislation is introduced requiring coders to be licensed?
I also found PSR well-written and very helpful. It described formally many practices which I had been trying to understand intuitively. It offers a very clear way of explaining what is expected of a piece of software. It also offers some guidance on elicting requirements from users. In a similar vein, I can recommend the guidelines of the Extreme Programming group (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgrammingRoadmap) .