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+# Software Design
+What does it mean to design good software? Clearly this is a learnable skill - what is required to learn and practice is?
+
+## SUPER for software design
+
+## Reference Material
+### Projects / Exercises
+* KWIC
+### Papers
+* _[On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules](https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/criteria_for_modularization.pdf)_ by D.L. Parnas
+### Books
+* _Clean Architecture_ by "Uncle Bob" Martin
+* _A Philosophy of Software Design_ by Ousterhout
+* _Design It!_ by Keeling
+* _Head First Design Patterns_ by Freeman and Bates
+* _The Architecture of Open Source Applications_ by Brown and Wilson
+* _UNIX: A History and a Memoir_ by Kernighan