[gameprogrammer] Re: software engineering

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 09:42, Justin Coleman wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:20:03 +0400, Alexander Sabourenkov
> <screwdriver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The "Mythical Man Month" by Brooks.

                Bob Pendleton

> > For some obscure reason, all links on the first page of google results for
> > 'second system syndrome' pointed to more-or-less exact definitions.
> 
> Thanks so much for your quick and accurate, if condescending, answer.
> You're so right, every time an unfamiliar term comes up I should
> immediately google for it. There's no better way to look educated in a
> job interview than to respond to an interviewer's questions with,
> "Could I borrow a web browser for a few minutes to look up the answer
> to that?"
> 
> I am well aware of the various search sites available on the web. I
> chose to eschew them in favor of the opinions of people who I feel are
> more competent in the subject than myself, in order to increase my own
> level of competence in the subject. If it was just one term, yes, I'd
> look it up in google. However, being the logical person I am, I made
> the deduction that if I didn't know the meaning of *one* software
> engineering term, that it's entirely possible there might be *other*
> terms I don't know as well. Now, of course, that being the case my
> choice is reduced to A) look up each term individually, or B) ask
> people who know what they're talking about (like Bob Pendleton and
> others on this list) to recommend a book with lots of terms in it,
> that I can learn all at once, not coincidentally absorbing the
> relation between all the terms as well.
> 
> Perhaps you could suppress your hostility long enough to suggest a
> book, as I originally asked?
> 
> Thanks so much.
> 
> -Justin
> 
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