Reviews for Psyche and Self's Theories in Psychology: A Concise Comparison Of A Number Of Theorists Like...

The average rating for Psyche and Self's Theories in Psychology: A Concise Comparison Of A Number Of Theorists Like... based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-07 00:00:00 nigel melas Thinking FORTH is really the book that started me on the way of thinking about life and software development in different terms. It is more about how to apply software methodology than about the FORTH language itself. In my previous review of 'Starting FORTH' I broached on the topic of 'Reverse Polish Notation' and how it affected every thought I had for a while. I was always driven to refine software coding in small steps, trying them out along the way before moving on to the next, (the basis of Agile Methodology today ), but this book motivated me to strive for more. Fueled by Brodie's writings, I continued my pursuit of FORTH for the remainder of the 80's, developing multi-tasking automated scripting engines for a Telecomm company so that they could simultaneously dial up and update four systems at once using a scripted based engine approach, all in FORTH. This book was definitely the one to read for those who attempted to be the mavericks of software development in the 80's. Leo Brodie's style accompanied with the comical illustrations made me laugh and want to read more. Two really good ones are the illustrations below. 1. There is a drawing of a software developer standing on King Arthur's round table, surrounded by his knights and Merlin. The caption says "So then I typed GOTO 500 and here I am!". Priceless! A jab at the Basic programming language! 2. There is another drawing of developers looking at a wall of flow charts, each one more advanced than the next. The last one has the flow chart morphed into a stick figure much like Mr. Peanut, with a cane and eyeglasses. The stick figure is speaking to the developers in an English accent, asking for a spot of tea. One developer says to the other: "Tobias, I think you've carried the successive refinement of that module far enough". Bravo! The book is different than the first one by Brodie, in it is more a philsophy course. The subtitle says it all "A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems". The iterative approach is discussed in Chaper Two, something I have now always tried to live by. There is a key phrase in the book that developers should all live by: "You don't understand a problem until you can simplify it". Here's another jewel that most IT organizations don't get today: "Given two adequate solutions, the correct one is the simple." You can read Thinking FORTH today in SourceForge.Net, if you go to this link:

Review # 2 was written on 2016-02-11 00:00:00 Judith A. Balogh Stretch your mind. Never feel comfortable.