Re: Foundation books (Was: The Mythical Man-Month)

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

> _Sketches of Thought_ is free online at Google Books. 

No, it isn't.  What you found is a Google Books book preview.  There's 
lots of good material, but too much is left out for the preview to 
suffice for the book. The chapter that begins with the Robert Frost 
quote on p.95 is a good case in point--the preview omits the part of the 
experimental study where he discusses the design protocol observed for 
the instructional designer who is asked to create "a self-contained 
instruction package to teach laypeople a reasonably complicated 
computational environment."

You wouldn't want to miss that, would you?



> Jim Shaeffer
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> My absolute favorite in recent years has been _Sketches of Thought_ by 
> Vinod Goel. The book is based on Vin's PhD research in cognitive science 
> at MIT, It requires some effort to read, but it doesn't disappoint--he 
> busts out some thinkable experiments and concise conclusions that will 
> help you to see, and for most of us this will be for the first time, 
> what design is, and the role it plays in problem solving. It is well 
> done, a book to be very grateful for. New $50-60US, used from $10US.
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