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Review title: A book written by a PhD for other PhDs to make you buy!
Product review: I had to buy this book for a class and I can honestly say I got very little useful information from it. I have been a practicing software engineer for 12 years - all of it on the bleeding edge (client server, fat client, distributed computing) and much of this book is outdated and related little to what I feel is done in practice. I found it ironic that such an academic tome uses the words "Pracitioner's Approach" in the subtitle. If you want to know what people who study software engineers think they do, buy this book. Otherwise, save your money and subscribe to any of the several good trade magazines which address current issues.
