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Database design

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• System design

• Data base design

• INGRES: Tools for Building an Information Architecture (c1989), by Carl Malamud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL (San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, c2000), by Richard T. Snodgrass (PDF at Arizona)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Specifying Systems: The TLA+ Language and Tools for Hardware and Software Engineers (Boston et al.: Addison-Wesley, c2003), by Leslie Lamport (PDF with commentary at awurewebsites.net)
• Modeling Reactive Systems with Statecharts: The STATEMATE Approach (New York et al.: McGraw Hill, c1998), by David Harel and Michal Politi (PDF files with commentary in Israel)
• Privacy Design Strategies (The Little Blue Book) (c2022), by Jaap-Henk Hoepman (PDF in the Netherlands)
• A Guide to Understanding Design Documentation in Trusted Systems (version 1, 1988), by National Computer Security Center (U.S.) (HTML at fas.org)
• Practical File System Design With the Be File System (San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, c1999), by Dominic Giampaolo (PDF at nobius.org)
• Capability-Based Computer Systems (1984), by Henry M. Levy (PDF files at Washington)
• Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture (1994), by Kim Waldén and Jean-Marc Nerson (PDF at bon-method.com)

• The Psychology of Menu Selection: Designing Cognitive Control at the Human/Computer Interface, by Kent L. Norman (HTML at UMD)

• Modeling Reactive Systems with Statecharts: The STATEMATE Approach (New York et al.: McGraw Hill, c1998), by David Harel and Michal Politi (PDF files with commentary in Israel)

• Mathematical Foundations for Structured Programming (Gaithersburg, MD: Federal Systems Division, IBM, 1972), by Harlan D. Mills (PDF at Tennessee)

• The Instructional Use of Learning Objects, ed. by David A. Wiley (MS Word files at reusability.org)

• Java, Java, Java: Object-Oriented Problem Solving (Creative Commons-licensed third edition; 2017), by R. Morelli and Ralph Walde (PDF with commentary at trincoll.edu)
• Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns (Creative Commons-licensed online edition, 2013), by Serge Demeyer, Stéphane Ducasse, and Oscar Marius Nierstrasz (PDF in Switzerland)
• Learn to Program (online tutorial edition, ca. 2004), by Chris Pine (HTML with commentary at pine.fm)
• Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide (first edition, c2001), by David Thomas (HTML at ruby-doc.com)
• Data Structures and Algorithms With Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C++ (online version, with links to versions for other languages; c1999), by Bruno R. Preiss (frame-dependent HTML at brpreiss.com)
• Data Structures and Algorithms With Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Java (online version, with links to versions for other languages; c1999), by Bruno R. Preiss (frame-dependent HTML at brpreiss.com)
• Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ (1997), by Peter Müller (HTML in Germany)
• Objektorientierte Programmierung mit ANSI C (in German and English; c1994), by Axel T. Schreiner
  • German original: PDF at RIT
  • English translation ("Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI C"): PDF at RIT
• Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture (1994), by Kim Waldén and Jean-Marc Nerson (PDF at bon-method.com)
• Object-Oriented Programming in the BETA Programming Language (c1993), by O. Lehrmann Madsen, Birger Møller-Pedersen, and Kristen Nygaard (PDF with commentary in Denmark)
• The Book of Ruby (free online edition, c2009), by Huw Collingbourne (zipped PDF with commentary at sapphiresteel.com)
• The Definitive Guide to Jython (Creative Commons edition, 2009), by Josh Juneau, Jim Baker, Victor Ng, and Frank Wierzbicki (HTML at readthedocs.io)
• Ruby Best Practices (c2009), by Gregory T. Brown (PDF with commentary at rubybestpractices.com)
• Squeak by Example (electronic edition, 2008), by Andrew P. Black, Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Marius Nierstrasz, and Damien Pollet (PDF with commentary at squeakbyexample.org)
• Dylan Programming: An Object-Oriented and Dynamic Language (1997), by Neal Feinberg, Sonya E. Keene, Robert O. Mathews, and P. Tucker Withington (HTML at gwydiondylan.org)
• Smalltalk and Object-Orientation: An Introduction (1997), by John Hunt (PDF at unibe.ch)
• Patterns of Software: Tales From the Software Community (New York and Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1996), by Richard P. Gabriel, contrib. by Christopher Alexander (PDF at dreamsongs.com)
• Object-Oriented Programming in Oberon-2 (second edition, c1994), by Hanspeter Mössenböck, contrib. by Niklaus Wirth (PDF in Austria)
• Inside Smalltalk (2 volumes, c1990-1991), by Wilf R. LaLonde and John R. Pugh
  • Volume I: PDF at free.fr
  • Volume II: PDF at free.fr
• Smalltalk/V 286: Tutorial and Programming Handbook (Los Angeles: Digitalk, c1988) (PDF at free.fr)
• Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (online edition, c2018), by Ben Lauwens and Allen Downey (HTML with commentary at githun.io)
• NeXTStep Programming: Step One, Object-Oriented Applications (1993), by Simson Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney (PDF at simson.net)
• Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming, by John English (HTML at adaic.org)
• Adaptive Object-Oriented Software, by Karl J. Lieberherr (PDF with commentary at Northeastern)
• The Java Tutorial (online edition, with additional tutorial materials), contrib. by Mary Campione and Kathy Walrath (illustrated HTML at Oracle)
• Object-Oriented System Development (electronic edition), by Dennis De Champeaux, Douglas Lea, and Penelope Faure (HTML at Oswego)
• Selected works, by Bruno R. Preiss (frame-dependent HTML at brpreiss.com)
• Working with Objects: The OOram Software Engineering Method (prepublication version), by Trygve Reenskaug, P. Wold, and O. A. Lehne (PDF in Norway)
• Modeling Reactive Systems with Statecharts: The STATEMATE Approach (New York et al.: McGraw Hill, c1998), by David Harel and Michal Politi (PDF files with commentary in Israel)
• A Byte of Python, by Swaroop C H (multiple formats with commentary at swaroopch.com)
• Dive Into Python 3, by Mark Pilgrim (HTML with commentary at problemsolving.io)
• Test-Driven Development With Python, by Harry Percival (illustrated HTML with commentary at obeythetestinggoat.com)

• The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (second edition), by Interaction Design Foundation (illustrated HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)
• Gamification at Work: Designing Engaging Business Software, by Janaki Kumar and Mario Herger (HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)

• Weave: Journal of Library User Experience (2014-) (full serial archives)

• The CUTGroup: Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech (Chicago: Smart Chicago Collaborative, 2014), by Daniel X. O'Neil (HTML with commentary at cutgroupbook.org)