Resource

A curated list of books and papers that have shaped, informed, or inspired the development of Software Studies.

Grouped by the guidance they provided.

Direction

• Apprenticeship Patterns 2009
• Design Of Design 2010
• Do More Great Work 2010
• Driving Technical Change 2010
• Elements Of User Experience 2002
• Handbook Of Software And Systems Engineering 2003
• How To Design Programs 2001
• Imagination Challenge 2006
• Laws Of Simplicity 2006
• Laws Of Software Process 2003
• Software Craftsmanship 2001
• Software Evolution 2006
• Teach What You Know 2006
• Thoughtful Interaction Design 2007

Inspiration

• Best Of 2600 2008
• Creative Code 2004
• Cyber Reader 2002
• Data Flow 2008
• Data Flow 2 2010
• Design Meditations 2005
• Designing Universal Knowledge 2008
• Dreaming In Code 2007
• Engineering Formulas 2006
• Equations 2005
• Evocative Objects 2007
• Every Architect Should Know 2009
• Formulas For Now 2008
• Grammar Of Ornament 1856
• Grid Index 2009
• Ignore Everybody 2009
• Image, Music, Text 1977
• It’s Not How Good You Are 2007
• Little Book Of Scientific Principles 2006
• Logic And Design 2005
• Making Software 2010
• Pleasure Of The Text 1975
• Software Studies 2008
• What Technology Wants 2010

Method

• Analysis Patterns 1996
• Applying UML And Patterns 2004
• Design Patterns 1994
• Design Science As Nested Problem Solving 2009
• Design Science In Information Systems Research 2004
• Design Science Research In Information Systems 2006
• Document Engineering 2005
• Documenting Software Architectures 2002
• Domain-Driven Design 2003
• Implementation Patterns 2007
• Interface Oriented Design 2006
• Mashup Patterns 2009
• Mashup Strategies 2009
• Modular Web Design 2009
• Object Design 2002
• Pattern Language 1977
• Patterns Of Enterprise Application Architecture 2002
• Refactoring 1999
• Refactoring To Patterns 2004
• Software Reuse 1997
• Software Systems Architecture 2005
• Use Case Driven Object Modeling 1999
• Experimentation In Software Engineering 1999

Planning

• Agile Samurai 2010
• Art Of Lean Software Development 2008
• Communicating Design 2006
• Data Model Patterns 2006
• Elements Of UML Style 2005
• Mastering Requirements 2006
• Model Driven Design Using Business Patterns 2006
• Object Oriented Metrics In Practice 2006
• Software Architecting 2009
• Software Measurement And Estimation 2006
• UML For The Analyst 2009
• UML Pocket Reference 2006
• Writing Effective Use Cases 2000

Philosophy

• Best Software Writing 2005
• Design Of Everyday Things 2002
• Great Software Debates 2004
• Hackers And Painters 2004
• Inmates Are Running The Asylum 2004
• Joel On Software 2004
• Mythical Man Month 1995
• Shaping Things 2005

Research

• Art Of Capacity Planning 2008
• Cyberculture Theorists 2007
• Design And Prototyping For Drupal 2011
• Developing Large Web Applications 2010
• Even Faster Web Sites 2009
• Essential PHP Security 2005
• Front End Drupal 2009
• Hacker’s Delight 2002
• Hacking: The Art Of Exploitation 2004
• Hacking: The Next Generation 2009
• Interface Culture 1997
• Keeping Found Things Found 2007
• Language Of New Media 2001
• Life On The Screen 1997
• Mining The Social Web 2011
• Natural Language Processing With Python 2009
• No Code Required 2010
• Planning And Building Drupal 2011
• Planning And Managing Drupal 2011
• Programming Interactivity 2009
• Scalable Internet Architectures 2006
• Screen 2001
• Secrets Of Reverse Engineering 2005
• Seven Languages In Seven Weeks 2010
• Unleashing Web 2.0 2007
• Web 2.0 Architectures 2009
• Web Application Hacker’s Handbook 2007
• Web Operations 2010
• Web Security Testing Cookbook 2008
• Web Services Platform Architecture 2005

Thinking

• Mind Hacks 2004
• Mind Performance Hacks 2006
• Pragmatic Programmer 1999
• Pragmatic Thinking And Learning 2008
• Rough Guide To The Brain 2007