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Re:Books I recommend to my software engineering students by Jtsummers on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:07PM (#22963918)
I probably ought to read this one. I got on a Weinberg reading kick after reading some recommendations here a few months before his death. The one I particularly liked was The Psychology of Computer Programming. While dated in many ways (like MMM), it has a lot of interesting ideas and discussion about the structure and behavior of people and teams (regardless of discipline, though he was writing about programmers). I actually have a quote that I've kept in my office IM for a while that is a paraphrasing of Fisher's Fundamental Theorem [0]:

  Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states—in terms appropriate to
  the present context—that the better adapted a system is to a
  particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new
  environments.
The theme of that quote kept coming up, I presume deliberately, in many of the later chapters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_fundamental_theorem...

Re:Books I recommend to my software engineering students by pjmorris on Friday April 24, 2020 @09:19AM (#22967628)
You might also find Weinberg's 'An Introduction To General Systems Thinking' of value. Weinberg was heavily influenced by general systems theory, as illustrated by referencing Fisher, and he wrote the book as a way to introduce others to that line of thinking.
Re:Books I recommend to my software engineering students by gmassman on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:07AM (#22964832)
Isn't that why most people use Docker nowadays?