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 *	Fred Brooks, Design of Design
 *	Juval Löwy, Righting Software
 
-Optional materials 
-Designing Software Architectures
-Mark Richards, Neal Ford, Fundamentals of Software Architecture
-Mark Richards, Neal Ford,  Software Architecture the Hard Parts.
-Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Ed. 2022
-Mark Maier, Eberhardt Reichtin, The Art of Systems Architecting, 3rd Ed.
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+### [Syllabus](schedule.md)