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Previous Winners: Books

2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990

Year: 2001

JOLT WINNER:

Year: 2000

JOLT WINNER:

• Adaptive Software Development, by James A. Highsmith III, published by Dorset House

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

• Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug, published by New Riders Publishing
• Secrets and Lies by Bruce Schneier, published by John Wiley & Sons
• Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn, published by Addison Wesley Longman

Year:1999

JOLT WINNER:

• Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage Centered Design, by Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood (Addison-Wesley)

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, by Kent Beck (Addison-Wesley)
• Software Requirements, by Karl E. Wiegers (Microsoft Press)
• After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering, by Steve M. McConnell (Microsoft Press)

Year:1998

JOLT WINNER:

• Component Software—Beyond Object-Oriented Programming, by Clemens Szyperski (Addison-Wesley)

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

• Anti-Patterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis, by William J. Brown, Raphael C. Malveau, Hays W. McCormick, and Thomas Mowbray (John Wiley & Sons)
• Software Architecture in Practice, by Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, Ken Bass and Len Bass (Addison Wesley Longman)
• Thinking in Java, by Bruce Eckel (Prentice Hall)

Year:1997

JOLT WINNER:

• Object-oriented Software Construction, by Bertrand Meyer (Prentice Hall)

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

• The Deadline: A Novel about Project Management, by Tom DeMarco (Dorset House Publishing)
• UML Distilled (Addison Wesley Longman)
• Building Object Applications That Work, by Scott Ambler (SIGS Books)

Year:1996

JOLT WINNER:

• Rapid Development, by Steve McConnell (Microsoft Press)

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

• Creating a Software Engineering Culture, by Karl Weigers (Dorset House Publishing Co.)
• Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, by Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad, and Michael Stal(Wiley Computer Publishing)
• The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide, by Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, and Jeri Edwards (Wiley Computer Publishing)

Year:1995

JOLT WINNER:

• Thinking in C++, by Bruce Eckel (PTR Prentice Hall Inc.)

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

• About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, by Alan Cooper (IDG Books Worldwide Inc.)
• A Discipline for Software Engineering, by Watts Humphrey (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.)
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Object-Oriented Design, by Meilir Page-Jones (Dorset House Publishing)

Year:1994

JOLT WINNER:

• Essential Client/Server Survival Guide, by Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, and Jeri Edwards (Van Nostrand Reinhold).

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

• Debugging the Development Process, by Steve Maguire (Microsoft Press).
• Design Patterns, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.).
• The Design and Evolution of C++, by Bjarne Stroustrup (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.).

Year:1993

JOLT WINNERS:

• Code Complete, by Steve McConnell (Microsoft Press).
• Object-Oriented Design and Analysis with Applications, 2nd Edition, by Grady Booch (Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co.)

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

• Applied Cryptography, by Bruce Schneier (John Wiley & Sons).
• Programming on Purpose, Vols. I and II, by P.J. Plauger (PTR Prentice Hall).
• Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire (Microsoft Press).

Year:1992

JOLT WINNERS:

• Undocumented Windows, by Andrew Schulman, David Maxey, and Matt Pietrek (Addison Wesley Publishing Co.).
• Decline and Fall of the American Programmer, by Ed Yourdon (Yourdon Press)

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

• Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use-Case Driven Approach, by Ivar Jacobson, Magnus Christerson, Patrik Jonsson, and Gunnar Overgaard (ACM Press).
• Liter Programming, by Donald Knuth (Stanford University Center for the Study of Language and Informaiton).
• Effective C++, by Scott Meyers (Addison Wesley Publishing Co.).

Year:1991

JOLT WINNER:

• Object-Oriented Design with Applications, by Grady Booch (Benjamin/Cummings Publishing).

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

• Advanced C++: Programming Styles and Idioms, by James Coplien (Addison Wesley Publishing Co.).
• Object-Oriented Modeling and Design, by James rumbaugh, Michael Blaha, William Premerlani, Frederick Eddy, and William Lorensen (PTR Prentice Hall).
• Object Lifecycles: Modeling the World in States, by Sally Shlaer and Steve Mellor (Addison Wesley Publishing Co.).

Year:1990

JOLT WINNER:

• Annotated C++ Reference Manual, by Margaret Ellis and Bjarne Stroustrup (Addison Wesley Publishing Co.).

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

• The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, Edited by Brenda Laurel (Addison Wesley Publishing Co.).
• Programming Windows, 2nd Ed., by Charles Petzold (Microsoft Press).
• Turbo C++ DiskTutor, by Greg Voss and Paul Chui (Osborne McGraw-Hill).