Pollice, Gary: - Gary Pollice is a self-labeled curmudgeon (that\'s a crusty, ill- tempered, usually old man) who spent over 35 years in industry trying to figure out what he wanted to be when he grew up.
Feel free to drop him a note and complain or cheer about the book..
You can see what he\'s up to by visiting his WPI home page at http: //web.cs.wpi.edu/ gpollice/. well he\'s always working on geeky things.
When not working on geeky things he ...
He lives in central Massachusetts with his wife, Vikki, and their two dogs, Aloysius and Ignatius.
He went to WPI because he was so impressed with the WPI graduates that he\'s worked with over the years.
Gary is also a co-author of Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design.
Gary is a Professor of Practice (meaning he had a real job before becoming a professor) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Even though he hasn\'t grown up yet, he did make the move in 2003 to the hallowed halls of academia where he has been corrupting the minds of the next generation of software developers with radical ideas like, develop software for your customer, learn how to work as part of a team, design and code quality and elegance and correctness counts, and it\'s okay to be a nerd as long as you are a great one.
Pollice, Gary: - Gary Pollice is a self-labeled curmudgeon (that\'s a crusty, ill- tempered, usually old man) who spent over 35 years in industry trying to figure out what he wanted to be when he grew up