Reviews for Structured Design : Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and System Design

The average rating for Structured Design : Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and System Design based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-12-26 00:00:00 Ryan Dammmann Oft recommended as a seminal text this book is perhaps a bit dated for readers in the second decade of the 21st century. The underlying ideas are powerful, the description of cohesion and coupling for example are insightful and clear, however being 45 years old at this point the linguistic tools the authors had to work with limit their expression. The reliance on flowcharts and box diagrams feel antiquated compared to modern languages where packages and even indentation are taken for granted. The languages used for example, FORTRAN and cobol, limit the express ability of the examples. It was also numerous to read arguments in favour of passing arguments to subroutines as parameters rather than writing them to tape because of the conceptual overhead of function arguments. Even so, with the limited tools available, the authors described, decades before DDD became en vogue, ideas like hexagonal design and bounded contexts. A valuable text if, like me, you enjoy exposure to the corpus of early software engineering, but probably not applicable as a teaching aide for contemporary programmers

Review # 2 was written on 2008-06-17 00:00:00 Christiaan Starrenburg The standard text. Don't buy it new.