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Okay& 8230;for the naive biologist

I sat down and read through it at a recent bioinformatics conference in Detroit where Wiley had an exhibit. It& 8217;s applicable for people who just learned how to code and have not had any formal software development training. In my experience, this type of scenario happens a lot: an amateur buys something such as Visual Basic and suddenly he or she is writing code. Someone in the office hears about it and things begin to explode. Suddenly, there is a ton of poorly tested, poorly engineered code, but the amateur is seen as an incredible genious because they can fix the mistakes they made - mistakes that probably should have never happened. So if you have someone in your office who got their hands on a compiler for the first time, you might want to read this to find out that there is more to programming than just writing code. I thought the text was well written for both managers and novice coders. .

However, if you& 8217;re an experienced developer (ie you have a four year degree in CS or are familiar with concepts of software testing, requirements gathering etc)you won& 8217;t find any great insights in this one that makes it worth the price. It& 8217;s basic software engineering information for software developers getting started. .

As far as my comment on price, I& 8217;ll add one more thing. If software development is completely new to you, this is a good start. After all, if it saves you from making some of those horrible mistakes I alluded to or opens your eyes so that it encourages you to take a formal course in software engineering and testing, then this is even more justification to encourage your boss to buy this text for you. .

Again, this is a bit of a mixed bag for a review, and I& 8217;m a bit prejudiced about appropriate text books& 8230;again, maybe the easy read will encourage some beginners not to take the & 8220;cowboy& 8221; approach to software development. Get this book as a start& 8230;and then get some books with much more depth in critical subject areas such as those by Shari Pfleeger, Len Bass and Paul Jorgensen. .

Part of me says give it two stars, part of me says give it five stars. It really depends on your background. Just don& 8217;t expect this book to make you an expert in bioinformatics& 8230;it& 8217;s basic software engineering with bioinformatics as the backround subject. .

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