The Essence of Software
Why Concepts Matter for Great Design
1st Edition
Published on 12. November 2021
336 pages
978-0-691-23054-2 (ISBN)
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Daniel Jackson is professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an associate director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is the author of Software Abstractions and Portraits of Resilience.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- How to Read This Book
- Part I. Motivations
- 1. Why I Wrote This Book
- 2. Discovering Concepts
- 3. How Concepts Help
- Part II. Essentials
- 4. Concept Structure
- 5. Concept Purposes
- 6. Concept Composition
- 7. Concept Dependence
- 8. Concept Mapping
- Part III. Principles
- 9. Concept Specificity
- 10. Concept Familiarity
- 11. Concept Integrity
- Questions to Remember
- Acknowledgments
- Resources
- Explorations & Digressions
- References
- Index of Applications
- Index of Concepts
- Index of Names
- Index of Topics
