Textbooks

This class is a survey of many sub-areas of software engineering, and an unfortunate result of this is that there is no single textbook that is appropriate for this class. However, there are several texts that have chapters that are quite relevant, and most of these books are available for free for Northeastern students through O’Reilly’s Safari Books online. To create your account, first visit this page: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/temporary-access/ and then select “Not Listed? Click Here” for institution, then enter your @northeastern.edu email address. After this first account creation, you’ll be able to log in directly to Safari Books Online with your @northeastern.edu email and no need for 2FA (hooray!). The schedule will list which chapters of which texts are relevant for each lecture:

• “Software Engineering at Google” By Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright
  This book is effectively a manual that describes the software engineering practices at Google, and the rationale behind those practices
• “The Programmer’s Brain” by Felienne Hermans (Not on Safari)
  An early-release text that links studies in human cognition to software engineering tasks like reading and writing code.
• “Fundamentals of Software Architecture” By Mark Richards and Neal Ford
  An overview of software architectural patterns and their role in successful software projects.
• “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code” By Martin Fowler
  The definitive list of “code smells” that should be avoiding in programming, matched up with “refactoring” techniques to improve that code
• “Learn React with TypeScript 3” by Carl Rippon
  A solid reference for React, describing how to get started, plus more advanced features like React’s Router and testing using Jest
• “Programming TypeScript” by Boris Cherny
  A useful introduction to TypeScript, written assuming familiarity with programming in languages like Java, C# or python.