Symbian for Software Leaders: Principles of Successful Smartphone Development Projects

Appendix B. Selected bibliography

The best source of information about books on Symbian is the web page of Symbian Press at www.symbian.com/books. New books are being publicized on this site on a regular basis.

For more information about the ways smartphones are transforming society, see:

• Smart mobs: the next social revolution, by Howard Rheingold

• Mobile disruption: the technologies and applications that are driving the mobile internet, by Jeffrey Lee Funk.

For more about disruptive technologies and network effects for new products, see:

• The innovator's solution:-creating and sustaining successful growth, by Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor

• The slow pace of fast change: bringing innovations to market in a connected world, by Bhaskar Chakravorti.

For general advice about high-quality software engineering, see the following by Steve McConnell:

• Software project survival guide

• Rapid development

• Code complete.

Four books that had a big influence on Psion's emerging understanding of OO and C++ during the 1980s and 1990s, and which are still well worth reading:

• Object-oriented programming: an evolutionary approach, by Brad Cox

• Object-Oriented software construction, by Bertrand Meyer

• Object-Oriented analysis and design with applications, by Grady Booch

• Taligent's guide to designing programs: well-mannered object-oriented design in C++

• The design and evolution of C++, by Bjarne Stroustrup.

Other true classics in the field of software engineering management which every software leader should reread ...