Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!nrl-cmf!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!vsi!friedl From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Anybody know about SADT? Message-ID: <660@vsi.UUCP> Date: 12 May 88 19:32:50 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 29 Hi net.{guys,gals}, A number of months ago I became exposed to the Yourdon Structured Analysis methodology (DeMarco's book) and was very impressed with it. I had previously done systems (20k-50k lines) with no more than good programming skills, and the *design* skills that I learned were really helpful. At any rate, I am very naive in this area, having only seen one Way of Doing Things and also for not having done large systems. I have a general kind of interest in exposing myself to another Way of Doing Things and have one in mind. The Byte Book Club main selection for this month is _SADT: Structured Analysis and Design Technique_ by David A. Marca and Clement L. McGowan ("with a forward by Douglas T. Ross"). (A) How is SADT? (B) How is this particular book? (C) If one wanted to be exposed to a couple of ways of doing SA, what is a good second choice? Thanks folks, Steve -- Steve Friedl V-Systems, Inc. (714) 545-6442 3B2-kind-of-guy friedl@vsi.com {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl attmail!vsi!friedl