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The author has been marooned on a desert island and his only access to the outside world is via a coupon for seven free books from Amazon (don’t ask how he will order the books). That doesn’t sound too bad, except there is a catch: all seven books must be related to software engineering. What will the author do?
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Davis, A.M. Desert Island Column. Autom Softw Eng 15, 251–256 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10515-007-0021-5
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