List of potential books to read before the end of Week 2 in CSC 300.  You are responsible to find a copy on your own.  Choose one (or suggest one you think is a good one to motivate you in this class!)  READ it and choose some particular aspect of its thesis relative to the world of computing and professionalism to focus on.  You may suggest your own title but it MUST be approved by the Professor prior to submission of the critical analysis assignment.

Yourdon, "Death March" Prentice-Hall

Simon, "The Sciences of the Artificial" MIT Press

Jackson, "Software Requirements and Specifications" Addison-Wesley

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"

Rawlins, "Slaves of the Machine" MIT Press

Feynman, "What do You Care What Other People Think?" Norton

Carnes, Delmonico, Griffin, "In the Shadows of the Net" Hazleden