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Q244769: After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession… Corrections

Article: Q244769
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Last Modified: 20-DEC-2000

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- MSPRESS After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering ISBN 0-7356-0877-6 
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SUMMARY
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This article contains comments, corrections, and information about known errors
relating to the Microsoft Press book After the Gold Rush: Creating a True
Profession of Software Engineering, ISBN 0-7356-0877-6.

The following topics are covered:

- Page 6: Text Missing

- Page 12: Caption Incorrect

- Page 72: Period Missing

MORE INFORMATION
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Page 6: Text Missing
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On page 6 at the end of the text, after "Therein lies the comfort." The text
should continue:

"Problems that once seemed intractable have begun to seem less difficult, and, as
I intend to show throughout the rest of this book, we are now on the brink of
fixing them."


Page 12: Caption Incorrect
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The caption for figure 2-4 on page 12 lists the "Software Project Survival Guide"
as being published in 1988 instead of 1998.


Page 72: Period Missing
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The period is missing from the end of the second sentence in the second paragraph
of the section entitled "The Myth of Soulless Software Development."


Microsoft Press is committed to providing informative and accurate books. All
comments and corrections listed above are ready for inclusion in future
printings of this book. If you have a later printing of this book, it may
already contain most or all of the above corrections.

Additional query words: DEVBOOK 0-7356-0877-6

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