YOUR ROADMAP TO ISE EIFFEL DOCUMENTATION

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WHAT YOU MUST ABSOLUTELY HAVE READ TO USE ISE EIFFEL:
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- If you are a total Eiffel beginner:

	Read appendix D of [Environment], a general introduction to the concepts of
	Eiffel. Also available in this directory as an ASCII file: language.txt
	(but we do recommend the fully formatted version).

- Before using the environment:

	Read the Preface and chapters 1, Getting started, and 2, A Guided Tour,
	of [Environment].

	Read chapter 1 of [Library], Introduction to the Base libraries,
	to know what libraries are available.

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TO PROCEED TO MORE ADVANCED USES:
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Read the rest of [Environment].

Read the chapters of [Library] corresponding to the libraries that you may
want to use. To understand library principles, read chapters 2 and 3 of [Library].

Refer to [Reference] or to [Language] for specific language questions.

Read [Method] and [Language] to understand the approach in depth.

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IF YOU ARE GOING TO DEVELOP GRAPHICAL (GUI) APPLICATIONS:
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Read [EiffelBuild]. If you need to use EiffelVision directly, not just
through EiffelBuild, read [EiffelVision].

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IF YOU ARE IN CHARGE OF INSTALLING ISE EIFFEL:
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Read appendices B and C of [Environment].

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THE REFERENCES:
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- The Official Documentation:

	[Reference] Eiffel: The Reference: A short language description, extracted
	from [Language]. Report number TR-EI-41/ER.

	[Library] Reusable Software: The Base Object-Oriented Component Libraries.
	A detailed description of the EiffelBase, EiffelLex and EiffelParse libraries,
	preceded by an in-depth examination of library design principles.
	TR-EI-44/LI. Also available as a book published by Prentice Hall.

	[Environment] ISE Eiffel: The Environment. A detailed description
	of the EiffelBench development environment. TR-EI-39/IE. Also available
	as a book published by Prentice Hall. Describes ISE Eiffel 3, but the
	concepts are applicable to ISE Eiffel 4.

	[EiffelBuild] Building Graphical Applications with EiffelBuild.
	A presentation of EiffelBuild. TR-EI-43/UI.

	[EiffelCase] Engineering Object-Oriented Software, Forward and Backward. 
	A description of EiffelCase. TR-EI-53/EA.

	[EiffelVision-intro] Introduction to EiffelVision. A general presentation of
	the EiffelVision graphical and user interface library. TR-EI-40/EV.

- Important Additional Literature:

	[Method] Object-Oriented Software Construction. The complete presentation
	of the underlying method. Available from Prentice Hall.

	[Language] Eiffel: The Language. Available from Prentice Hall. The complete
	language description. [Reference] is an extract with all the formal rules but
	not the examples and explanations.

	[BON] Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture by Kim Waldén and
	Jean-Marc Nerson. Available from Prentice Hall. A presentation of O-O
	analysis and design based on systematic concepts close to those of Eiffel.
	Introduces the Business Object Notation (BON), the basis for EiffelCase.