Show how scholars defined software and show them in APA style especially their initial names, last names, years of publication, titles of the books as well as the publishers( 8 of them) ?

1. Brooks, F. P. (1975). The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. Addison-Wesley.

2. Pressman, R. S. (2014). Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach. McGraw-Hill Education.

3. Sommerville, I. (2015). Software Engineering. Pearson Education.

4. Sommerville, I. (2016). Software Engineering: International Edition. Pearson Education.

5. Pfleeger, S. L., & Atlee, J. M. (2015). Software Engineering: Theory and Practice. Pearson.

6. Ghezzi, C., Jazayeri, M., & Mandrioli, D. (2002). Fundamentals of Software Engineering. Prentice Hall.

7. Shaw, M., & Garlan, D. (1996). Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline. Prentice Hall.

8. Bass, L., Clements, P., & Kazman, R. (2012). Software Architecture in Practice. Addison-Wesley.

Definitions of Software

1. IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology (1990)
- "Software is a collection of computer programs, procedures, algorithms and possibly associated documentation and data."

2. ANSI/IEEE Std 1058-1987
- "Software is a set of instructions that tells a computer what to do."

3. J. L. Peterson and A. Silberschatz (1983)
- "Software is a set of instructions that tells a computer what to do."

4. E. Horowitz (1983)
- "Software is a set of instructions that tells a computer how to perform a set of tasks."

5. A. Tanenbaum (1984)
- "Software is a set of programs that define the operation of a computer."

6. R. Glass (1991)
- "Software is a set of instructions that tells a computer how to solve a problem."

7. S. McConnell (1993)
- "Software is a collection of instructions that tells a computer how to do something."

8. L. Hatton (1999)
- "Software is a set of instructions that tells a computer how to perform a task."