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Do not let the published date this book fool you. The principles are sound and hold true for today. This is a structured analysis book, not a programming book.

This book goes way beyond flow charts. And take you into the realm of entity-relationship diagrams, tools of structured analysis, state-transition diagrams, and behavioral models, automated tools, and various charts such as Gant.

This is a prerequisite for case tools.

When I was at university, this book was my introduction to structured analysis. I found it fun and easy to read (I believe I finished in two weeks). Every aspect of analysis is explained in a very clear way.

It might be true that some of the techniques are outdated, indeed. But beginners need some place to start, and I think this book is great as a first book for someone who tries to get a grip on structured analysis by self-study. By the way some university professors don't even teach such 'recent' developments (I can give some examples).

Besides, about the 'outdated' comment, if you buy a IT-book that was written 8 years ago, you're quite foolish to expect it to have the latest trends and techniques explained!

The principles are sound. The book is easy to read. The case studies in the appendix are very helpful

It is a wonder this book sells even now when lot of better books have gone out of print. Then, life is full of such surprises.

This book seems to take the 'my way or the highway' approach. There is more than one good way to approach structured design, this is just one approach.

The content is very dated, it may have applied well in a 1985 glass-house, Cobol environment. But has very littly relevance today.