List of potential books to read before the end of Week 2 in CSC 300, Fall 2008.  Choose one (or suggest one you think is a good one to motivate you in this class!)  READ this book and produce a 3 page summary of its questions / answers / list of problems for future work by the end of the second week of classes.

Yourdon, "Death March" Prentice-Hall

Simon, "The Sciences of the Artificial" MIT Press

Jackson, "Software Requirements and Specifications" Addison-Wesley

Pausch, "The Last Lecture" Hyperion

Petroski, "To Engineer is Human" Vintage

Landaur, "The Trouble with Computers" MIT Press

DeMarch, Lister, "Peopleware" Dorset House

Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming" Dorset House

Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" 

Lessig, "Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity"