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Subject:Re: RE: What's on your TC bookshelf? From:Susan W. Gallagher <sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:07:28 -0400
I've done a lot of head nodding (yup, got that one) as I read
through everyone's list. My bookshelf is currently split
between home and work, so most of this is off the top of my
head.
Karen Shriver's book (waded through the first half, never got back to read the second half)
Hackos Managing Doc Projects (it was a gift)
Peter Hartman's book, of course (he used to be my boss)
Houpe & Pearsall's Reporting Technical Information
Newton's Telecom Dictionary
Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Bernstein - The Careful Writer
John M. Carroll - The Nurenberg Funnel, Beyond the NF, & Making Use
Usability books by Nielsen, Jeffery Rubins, Hackos & Redish, and Theo Mandel
Chicago 14 & 15
Cooper - About Face & The Inmates are Running the Asylum
I bought Horton's Online book when it first came out and
refuse to buy anything else by him until he learns to index!
Maybe a dozen books on C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, Perl, OO software design, distributed object applications, networking, whatever technology I'm currently working with.