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A comment on Eric Raymond's 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' Turns 19. Parent comment

Re:Eric Raymond's 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' Turns 19 by firasd on Monday May 23, 2016 @01:15PM (#11755232)
Yeah. I had that feeling when I came across Turing's original article about the Turing Test a few months ago http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html. And other classics like Feynman on the Challenger disaster: http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm

Maybe we should start aggregating the more "timeless" books/articles we recommend. I'll probably start something on Github or Medium like for my own recommendations.

College CS courses (at least in my limited experience) are so far from day-to-day software engineering that I don't hold out much hope that they'd assign these kinda readings though. A few months ago I wrote about how reading Joel on Software was useful to me while I was getting into the field: https://medium.com/@firasd/things-i-read-on-joel-on-software...

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Re:Eric Raymond's 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' Turns 19 by geoelectric on Monday May 23, 2016 @07:13PM (#11757756)
OTOH, there are places starting to do Software Engineering degrees that emphasize real-world practice. They'd benefit greatly from a survey of those texts. I'd be mildly surprised if that doesn't already happen though, at least for holy tomes like Man-Month or Peopleware.
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Re:Eric Raymond's 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' Turns 19 by firasd on Monday May 23, 2016 @03:48PM (#11756375)
(Replying since out of edit time window) One more contemporary link I'd put on such a list is "My Heroku Values" https://gist.github.com/adamwiggins/5687294
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Re:Eric Raymond's 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' Turns 19 by beat on Monday May 23, 2016 @04:12PM (#11756546)
Oh, that's a good one! I've had to learn a lot of that the hard way in this whole startup founder path... :(
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Re:Eric Raymond's 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' Turns 19 by beat on Monday May 23, 2016 @03:14PM (#11756111)
The one that really killed me on first reading was Alan Kay's concept of the Dynabook. It only took us 40 years to get it!
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