Software Engineering for Students A Programming Approach

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First published under the Prentice Hall imprint 1987
Second edition 1992
Third edition 2000
Fourth edition 2005
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bell, Doug, 1944-
Software engineering for student/Douglas Bell. -- 4th ed.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: Software engineering. 2000.
ISBN 0-321-26127-5
1. Software engineering. 2. Computer programming. I. Bell, Doug, 1944-
Software engineering. II. Title.
QA76.758.B45 2005
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