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The Best Software Writing I

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Style is Substance
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    Chapter 2 Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search
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    Chapter 3 The Pitfalls of Outsourcing Programmers
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    Chapter 4 Excel as a Database
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    Chapter 5 ICSOC04 Talk
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    Chapter 6 Autistic Social Software
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    Chapter 7 Why Not just Block the Apps that Rely on Undocumented Behavior?
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    Chapter 8 Kicking the Llama
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    Chapter 9 Save Canada’s Internet from WIPO
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    Chapter 10 EA: The Human Story
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    Chapter 11 Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing
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    Chapter 12 Processing Processing
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    Chapter 13 Great Hackers
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    Chapter 14 The Location Field is the New Command Line
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    Chapter 15 Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit
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    Chapter 16 Passion
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    Chapter 17 C++—The Forgotten Trojan Horse
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    Chapter 18 How Many Microsoft Employees Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
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    Chapter 19 What to Do When You’re Screwed
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    Chapter 20 Larry’s Rules of Software Engineering #2: Measuring Testers by Test Metrics Doesn’t
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    Chapter 21 Team Compensation
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    Chapter 22 Mac Word 6.0
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    Chapter 23 A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy
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    Chapter 24 Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software
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    Chapter 25 Closing the Gap, Part 1
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    Chapter 26 Closing the Gap, Part 2
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    Chapter 27 Hazards of Hiring
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    Chapter 28 Powerpoint Remix
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    Chapter 29 A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes)
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Title
The Best Software Writing I
Published by
Apress, October 2005
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-0038-3
ISBNs
978-1-59059-500-8, 978-1-4302-0038-3
Authors

Spolsky, Avram Joel, Spolsky, Joel

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Country Count As %
United States 3 7%
Portugal 1 2%
Brazil 1 2%
Italy 1 2%
Belgium 1 2%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 33 80%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 17%
Researcher 6 15%
Student > Bachelor 6 15%
Other 5 12%
Student > Master 4 10%
Other 9 22%
Unknown 4 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 18 44%
Social Sciences 6 15%
Psychology 2 5%
Arts and Humanities 2 5%
Linguistics 1 2%
Other 8 20%
Unknown 4 10%