Lisa K. Simone

At first, I thought this was going to be a book about or based on the Galaxy Note 7 (based on the "phone on fire" in the title), but this book was published 9 years too early to be about that, and the Note 7 was really a hardware problem not a software one.

But I digress.

This book is a really great "mystery book" filled with embedded software debugging vignettes. A couple of them I figured out immediately, and others had me pretty stumped. But throughout, I kept thinking what a great resource this book could be for my students (if I could only get them to read).

If you feel like this book is a little hokey at the start, please just keep reading. I rolled my eyes at first but quickly got sucked in. This is a great book, and I'm looking forward to purchasing a copy for my library.… (mere)

I've *lived* most of the stories in this book... but I'm a "senior guru" type :-) The stories themselves are amazingly accessible and well grounded in engineering reality, the character development is good (what? character development in a book on debugging? :-) and it even has good team building scenarios (after all, *one* person doing all of this doesn't make a good story...)

I still need to "test" it on co-workers, but I'd certainly recommend it to anyone doing debugging... which means anyone doing development. *Not* just "embedded" development - that just makes the stories more interesting, the techniques have very broad application.… (mere)