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Software
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Software Engineering Eighth Edition

This 8th edition has enhanced the 7th edition with new
material on security engineering, service-oriented
software engineering and aspect-oriented software
development. For educational purposes, it is completely
compatible with the 7th edition.

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Selected titles in the series

Operating Systems Introductory Logic and Sets for Computer Scientists

J Bacon and T Harris N Nissanke

Programming Language Essentials Human-Computer Interaction

H E Bal and D Grune J Preece et al

Programming in Ada 95, 2nd ed Algorithms

J G P Barnes F Rabhi and G Lapalme

Java Gently, 3rd ed Ada 95 From the Beginning, 3rd ed

J Bishop J Skansholm

Software Design, 2nd ed C++ From the Beginning, 2nd ed

D Budgen J Skansholm

Concurrent Programming Java From the Beginning, 2nd ed

A Burns and G Davies J Skansholm

Real-Time Systems and Programming Languages, 3rd ed Object-Oriented Programming in Eiffel, 2nd ed
A Burns and A Wellings P Thomas and R Weedon

Database Systems, 4th ed Miranda

T Connolly and C Begg S Thompson

Distributed Systems, 4th ed Haskell, 2nd ed

G Coulouris, J Dollimore and T Kindberg S Thompson

Fortran 90 Programming, 2nd ed Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists, 2nd ed

T M R Ellis, I R Phillips and T M Lahey J K Truss

Program Verification Compiler Design

N Francez R Wilhem and D Maurer

Introduction to Programming using SML Discover Delphi

M Hansen and H Rischel S Williams and S Walmsley

Functional C Comparative Programming Languages, 3rd ed

P Hartel and H Muller R G Clark

Algorithms and Data Structures, 2nd ed

J Kingston
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