Head First Software Development

De todos los libros sobre las técnicas para guiar el desarrollo de software, considero a este libro una muy buena guía para empezar en el mundo del desarrollo agil. Claro que después de este libro deberás ponerlo en práctica y además de ir adquiriendo tus propias experiencias pero definitivamente este libro es un gran paso para las grandes ligas.

This book really helped me plan my iterations and keep track of the burn down rate

Before begining my first professional program, I bought this book. At first, I was wondering how all those pictures and games exercises will help me to learn about software development. I told to myself, "I'm a in a profession that has books with "dummy" in their titles, and now books with middle school games... what's next? coloring books for developers?" After that though, I went straight to code and put this book right back into my bookshelf. While I was able to deliver the software on-time (with overtime), I experienced success but not with out frustrations. In retrospective, I think I did the right thing by not using this book at first because now I really appreciated what this book offers. I would recommend this to any developer for the following reasons: First, those pictures and middle school games that I just mention, some how they work pretty well if you want to learn something. While I put certain effort to learn from more traditional books, with the head first approach, I was able to learn software development techniques and principles with no effort whatsoever. Seconds, while this book is load with software development fundamentals, their main goal is help out the real-world working developer. With this book, I felt understood, I felt that they knew about my personal frustrations (and mistakes) that I encountered when I was developing my program. Finally,they also try to avoid getting into complex and formal software processes (SCRUM, XP, etc) by presenting pen and pencil techniques that keeps you focus on learning the fundamentals. I just finished reading this book, I feel that my developing powers have increased. Right now, I'm setting up my home CI server to begin my first real open source program. I just got head first design pattern and head first object oriented design and I hope to get the same fun that I got with this book!

Love the layout and structure of the book. It goes through everything in a fun way building on an imaginary project. It shows exactly how you code in an agile project, how to prioritise etc.

that book it really amazing.. its different from all the other software development books that i ever read.. its full of graphics and fun stuff like that that really helps you remember.. its to the point! and it speaks with a normal language... full of tips and very useful stuff. Really amazing..