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The design of design : essays from a computer scientist

Frederick P. Brooks
Print Book, English, 2009
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Addison-Wesley, Boston, Mass., 2009
pages
9780201362985, 0201362988
316017624
Architecture logicielle
Computer software Development
Design
Entwicklung
Software Engineering
Software architecture
Softwareentwicklung
Prefaceix
I Models of Designing
1(60)
The Design Question
3(10)
How Engineers Think of Design---The Rational Model
13(8)
What's Wrong with This Model?
21(18)
Requirements, Sin, and Contracts
39(12)
What Are better Design Process Models?
51(10)
II Collaboration and Telecollaboration
61(42)
Collaboration in Design
63(26)
Telecollaboration
89(14)
III Design Perspectives
103(98)
Rationalism versus Empiricism in Design
105(8)
User Models---Better Wrong than Vague
113(6)
Inches, Ounces, Bits, Dollars---The Budgeted Resource
119(8)
Constraints Are Friends
127(12)
Esthetics and Style in Technical Design
139(14)
Exemplars in Design
153(14)
How Expert Designers Go Wrong
167(8)
The Divorce of Design
175(10)
Representing Designs' Trajectories and Rationales
185(16)
IV A Computer Scientist's Dream System for Designing Houses
201(28)
A Computer Scientist's Dream System for Designing Houses---Mind to Machine
203(16)
A Computer Scientist's Dream System for Designing Houses---Machine to Mind
219(10)
V Great Designers
229(28)
Great Designs Come from Great Designers
231(12)
Where Do Great Designers Come From?
243(14)
VI Trips through Design Spaces: Case Studies
257(114)
Case Study: Beach House ``View/360''
259(20)
Case Study: House Wing Addition
279(18)
Case Study: Kitchen Remodeling
297(16)
Case Study: System/360 Architecture
313(18)
Case Study: IBM Operating System/360
331(16)
Case Study: Book Design of Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution
347(8)
Case Study: A Joint Computer Center Organization: Triangle Universities Computation Center
355(12)
Recommended Reading
367(4)
Acknowledgments371(4)
Bibliography375(18)
People Index393(8)
Subject Index401