Ch 1
The chapter discusses how programming can be enjoyable for some. For example many enjoy the prospect of creating something. Another reason is the joy of making things for people that they find useful. The whole chapter deals with the joys of programming.
Ch 2
The chapter talks about how it is sometime difficult to time a project as we may not know how long it would take. For the most part, programmers are optimists. It describes the title of the book, man-month. This is a unit of measurement for time taken to complete a task.
Ch 3
This chapter discusses that solving a large project doesn't mean throwing more team members on the project. This sometimes will make the process slower. Instead, teams should divide up tasks by having a main programmer, a co programmer, tester and many other jobs in order to avoid confusion and speed up the process.
Discussion:
I'm glad the tile of the book makes sense now. This sounds like another extreme programming book so far. I still don't have an opinion of the book. I will need to read further.
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