[plt-scheme] Re: [OT] Books on Software Design

Noel Welsh wrote at 05/12/2009 03:45 PM:
> And for really getting down, Thriller (well, Billie Jean at least).
>   

Speaking of bad design puns...  I once had to know basically every OO 
analysis and design methodology out there (there were a lot, before UML 
made it all mainstream and dumbed-down).  The most pun-able pair of OO 
analysis and design books on my shelf were both co-authored by... Coad 
and Yourdon (the "Code, and you're done!" method)

Back to serious: in any study of analysis&design, I would definitely 
include some work on modeling the static structure of data.  This is 
essential for large systems.  You can use UML, but don't just use it as 
a visualization of your programming language or database schema 
language: if you're not winding up using attributes of associations, 
constraints between associations, and other concepts not in your 
implementation language, you're missing some useful concepts.

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