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Ballew, David

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  “If you don’t have it, you can’t find it”: a close look at students’ perceptions in using technology
Watson J. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49(11): 1024-1036, 1998.  Type: Article

This qualitative study examines a small sample of eighth-grade students’ perceptions about their experiences with technology, especially their use of the World Wide Web. The paper is primarily directed at public school teache...

Feb 1 1999  
  Software engineering
Pfleeger S., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998.  Type: Book (9780136248422)

Unlike most other software engineering texts, this book blends measurement into the thread of the discussion rather than considering it a separate issue. Similarly, concepts such as reuse, risk management, and quality engineering are e...

Oct 1 1998  
  Electronic commerce
Adam N., Dogramaci O., Gangopadhyay A., Yesha Y. (ed), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999.  Type: Book (9780139490828)

Electronic commerce is a multidisciplinary field that includes technical areas, such as networking and telecommunications, security, and storage and retrieval of multimedia; business areas, such as marketing, procurement and purchasing...

Sep 1 1998  
  CMM implementation guide
Caputo K., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1998.  Type: Book (9780201379389)

The capability maturity model (CMM) was developed by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University as a useful and powerful tool meant to provide guidance in software process improvement efforts. It is a generally ap...

Sep 1 1998  
  Secure electronic transactions
Loeb L., Artech House, Inc., Norwood, MA, 1998.  Type: Book (9780890069929)

A protocol to allow credit card information to be safely and securely transmitted over the Internet is discussed. This protocol, Secure Electronic Transaction (SET), has become the standard for many major credit card companies and fina...

Jul 1 1998  
  Measuring the impact of your Web site
Robert W. J., Lukaszewski C., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1997.  Type: Book (9780471172499)

Managers of commercial Web sites, who are commonly called Webmasters, are the audience for this book. It focuses on three questions:

  • “Are you convinced that your company’s web site is making a difference,...
Apr 1 1998  
  Politics on the nets
Rash W., W. H. Freeman & Co., New York, NY, 1997.  Type: Book (9780716783244)

The impact that the Internet has had and is having on the political process, especially in the US, is the concern of this book. The Internet is a recent phenomenon, and its effect on politics has been rapid and not completely understoo...

Oct 1 1997  
  How to run successful projects II--the silver bullet
O’Connell F., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997.  Type: Book (9780132398565)

The focus of this book is the author’s Ten Step Method for software project management. The book is written with energy and excitement, and it contains a number of ideas that, although not new, are rephrased into a commonsens...

Sep 1 1997  
  Problem solving with C
Jones J., Harrow K. (ed), Scott/Jones Inc., El Granada, CA, 1996.  Type: Book (9781881991489)

In this well-written introductory textbook, Jones and Harrow cover the basic features of C and many of the advanced features one would expect in such a volume. The text would be useful for a novice programming student and would be suit...

Jan 1 1997  
  Practical software metrics for project management and process improvement
Grady R., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1992.  Type: Book (9780137203840)

The emphasis of this book is on proven practices and results of practical applications of software metrics. Part 1 focuses on the use of software metrics by project managers. The author tries to show that software metrics help to clari...

Nov 1 1993  
 
 
 
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