Flow Design for Embedded Systems: A Simple, Unified Object-Oriented Methodology, with Disk [With Trade Paper]

by Barry Kauler

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879304693
• ISBN13: 9780879304690
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Backbeat Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

At last, a good diagramming method for Software.

Electrical Engineers agreed decades ago how to communicate their ideas with universally agreed upon schematic diagrams, while Software Engineers still flounder around with various ad-hoc diagramming methods or have religious wars over any of several touted schemes. As a practicing SE for more than 20 years, I am still on the lookout for one grand software diagramming technique that combines the best of data flow, control flow, state machine, structured and object oriented methodologies.With this one book, I have found it. At first, the author's informal first-person style seemed amateurish. But I became more tolerant as he admitted to the same shortcomings I have yet tend to cover up for the sake of professional image. Then moving beyond the informal writing style and bizarre names he gives his creations, I discovered the GOOFEE software diagramming technique. It is absolutely wonderful. It can completely capture all aspects of a software system in a 2-D diagram. Its scope can range from high-level design through automated code generation as desired. And yet it is so simple, with only a dozen or so basic symbols, I can actually remember it after putting the book down!I highly recommend this book to any practicing SE or programmer looking for a diagramming tool to capture and communicate their ideas.