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Refactoring: Ruby Edition (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, ...

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2009

The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (The Virtual Laboratory)

2 reviews
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer

Springer, 1991

All the detail you need to produce your own graphical plants
The beauty of plants has attracted the interest of mathematicians for centuries. Plants have many conspicuous geometric features such as symmetry in their leaves, rotational symmetry in their flowers, and then there are the interesting helical arrangements of pine cone scales. This book examines two factors that organize plant structures and therefore contribute to their beauty. The first is the ...

UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Object ...

104 reviews
Martin Fowler

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003

Excellent introduction to UML and the software design process.
If you would like to get a better grasp on doing some high-level software design, UML Distilled turns out to be a much better book than I had anticipated. I expected a dry tutorial of the UML notation, but it is thankfully much more than this. UML Distilled (3rd Ed.) does indeed cover the UML 2.0 notation, but while you are learning one of the most flexible and widely accepted ways to represent ...

Home For Christmas: Heart Full of Love/Ride the Clouds/Don't Look Back/To Keep Me Warm (Heartsong Novella ...

2 reviews
Colleen Coble, Carol Cox, ...

Barbour Publishing, Incorporated, 2001

Very Good!!
A very good book. I'm not a big fan of reading and haven't finished a book since who knows when. But I started reading this book and couldn't put it down. It's very intersting!! I wish I could fine more books like it!

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

139 reviews
Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, ...

Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999

Must have in any developers collection
I was referred to this book from a colleague after a quick discussion on "Replace temp with Query" in our projects code base. I thought I knew it all as a software developer, but reading this book, I soon came to realize that as a software developer I was leaving a legacy of code that was not at the standard it should be. This book opened my eyes to some really simple concepts, for example, ...

The Ethical Practice of Critical Thinking
Martin Clay Fowler

Carolina Academic Press, 2008

It's incredible that critical thinking texts can describe skills of logical deduction, inference, and argument as if thinking were something other than an activity which real people do together. Critical thinking is not just private pondering, nimble mental gymnastics, or a bland set of teachable skills. The Ethical Practice of Critical Thinking explores the ethical questions it poses: How do we sustain discussion when we apply and uphold worthy ...

UML Distilled: Applying the Standard Object Modelling Language

36 reviews
Martin; Scott, Kendall Fowler

Addison-Wesley, 1997

If you know OO programming it is a good overview of UML
Short and to the point. A good working guide if you know OO programming. Examples are clear but not too detailed. If you are into the high ceremony, fill out every form, type of design documentation this book won't be detailed enough for you. If you are a working programmer who wants good ways to think about and communicate your software designs - this is the book for you. In our company we ...

Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

15 reviews
Martin Fowler

Addison-Wesley Professional, 1996

Study, don't just read this book.
I bet you are an object oriented software developer striving to build better applications. If you have not read GoF Design Patterns and followed that with Vlissides's Pattern Hatching , read those first. Follow those with this, Martin Fowler's Analysis Patterns . As two readings of Design Patterns took my OO knowledge from infancy to adolecence, Analysis Patterns will take you from ...

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

56 reviews
Martin Fowler

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002

Must have reference for all developers
Even if you don't do "Enterprise Application" development, this book is a must have in your library. If you have been developing for more than a couple of years and you haven't seen 1/2 of the patterns in this book, then you are probably doing something wrong and this book could greatly help you. Even if you do know 1/2 or more of the patterns in this book it is a great reference to the ...

Planning Extreme Programming (XP Series)

26 reviews
Kent Beck, Martin Fowler

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000

Excellent book
This book lays out the point of planning, the approach taken, and the steps to do. This book has a lot of content not found in any other XP book that I own. The gold nuggets in here are useful for project management for years to come. It's a 5 star for sure.

Wild Orchids Of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History

1 review
James Alexander Fowler

University of South Carolina Press, 2005

Finally, a book focusing exclusively on orchids in South Carolina.
A must have compendium of SC species presented in a first-hand accounting of one man's remarkable journey with these plants. Each has a photo of a grouping in situ and closeups of floral parts, there is room for notes and extensive explanations of habitat needs, personal observations, recollections and recommendations for where you might find the plant. This is an exceptional book and I highly ...

Tales from West Africa (Oxford Myths and Legends)

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

This lively collection comes from West Africa, a place 'where stories grow on trees'. Here are the famous tricksters: Hare, Tortoise, and the greatest of them all - Ananse, the spider. The stories are full of larger-than-life characters and situations, and include the tale of how Ananse got his thin waist, how Crocodile learnt his lesson, and how Monkey managed not to get eaten by Shark.

Advanced Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML

3 reviews

Cambridge University Press, 1998

Very advanced and appropriate for graduate studies
This book is certainly for a very advanced student. If you are just beginning, it's not going to tell you much. But if you are into graduate studies and need some good references, this is the book for you. I will probably read this book several times to get the ideas in it, but being a graduate student, I find it very helpfull. The author is very precise in his use of the venacular. Probably ...

CALABASH
Christopher Fowler

Warner Books, 2000

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