This looked promising, while I browsed the index. Especially the first chapters that discuss human cognition. Since software is still a human creative endeavor cognition is key to understand software engineering. However, continuing to read the index I am discouraged and I expect that this is a difficult read. I was expecting more like a handbook, more succint, that I could use to explain software engineering to non technical leaders.
Also, why in the world somebody would choose R as a vehicle to present software engineering fundamentals? This by itself almost disqualifies the book for me. It would have been much more useful, IMO, to use some imperative or object oriented, more common, language.
