Part II. Specific Topics in Software Engineering

This part of Making Software applies the ideas in the previous part to several pressing topics in the field of programming and software development. Most of these topics are widely debated, with ardent proponents on several sides. The beliefs programmers hold on these issues influence their day-to-day behavior and control hiring and budgetary decisions. You’ll learn in this part of the book how much we can trust current beliefs.

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