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The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Published
February 4, 1999
by
Addison-Wesley Professional
.
Written in English.
About the Book
A compendium of practical matters of importance to working programmers.
First Sentence
This fragment of code comes from a large program written many years ago:
Table of Contents
| Preface | ix | |
| 1 | Style | 1 |
| 1.1 | Names | 3 |
| 1.2 | Expressions and Statements | 6 |
| 1.3 | Consistency and Idioms | 10 |
| 1.4 | Function Macros | 17 |
| 1.5 | Magic Numbers | 19 |
| 1.6 | Comments | 23 |
| 1.7 | Why Bother? | 27 |
| 2 | Algorithms and Data Structures | 29 |
| 2.1 | Searching | 30 |
| 2.2 | Sorting | 32 |
| 2.3 | Libraries | 34 |
| 2.4 | A Java Quicksort | 37 |
| 2.5 | O-Notation | 40 |
| 2.6 | Growing Arrays | 41 |
| 2.7 | Lists | 44 |
| 2.8 | Trees | 50 |
| 2.9 | Hash Tables | 55 |
| 2.10 | Summary | 58 |
| 3 | Design and Implementation | 61 |
| 3.1 | The Markov Chain Algorithm | 62 |
| 3.2 | Data Structure Alternatives | 64 |
| 3.3 | Building Data Structures in C | 65 |
| 3.4 | Generating Output | 69 |
| 3.5 | Java | 71 |
| 3.6 | C++ | 76 |
| 3.7 | Awk and Perl | 78 |
| 3.8 | Performance | 80 |
| 3.9 | Lessons | 82 |
| 4 | Interfaces | 85 |
| 4.1 | Comma-Separated Values | 86 |
| 4.2 | A Prototype Library | 87 |
| 4.3 | A Library for Others | 91 |
| 4.4 | A C++ Implementation | 99 |
| 4.5 | Interface Principles | 103 |
| 4.6 | Resource Management | 106 |
| 4.7 | Abort, Retry, Fail? | 109 |
| 4.8 | User Interfaces | 113 |
| 5 | Debugging | 117 |
| 5.1 | Debuggers | 118 |
| 5.2 | Good Clues, Easy Bugs | 119 |
| 5.3 | No Clues, Hard Bugs | 123 |
| 5.4 | Last Resorts | 127 |
| 5.6 | Non-reproducible Bugs | 130 |
| 5.7 | Other People's Bugs | 135 |
| 5.8 | Summary | 136 |
| 6 | Testing | 139 |
| 6.1 | Test as You Write the Code | 140 |
| 6.2 | Systematic Testing | 145 |
| 6.3 | Test Automation | 149 |
| 6.4 | Test Scaffolds | 151 |
| 6.5 | Stress Tests | 155 |
| 6.6 | Tips for Testing | 158 |
| 6.7 | Who Does the Testing? | 159 |
| 6.8 | Testing the Markov Program | 160 |
| 6.9 | Summary | 162 |
| 7 | Performance | 165 |
| 7.1 | A Bottleneck | 166 |
| 7.2 | Timing and Profiling | 173 |
| 7.3 | Strategies for Speed | 175 |
| 7.4 | Tuning the Code | 178 |
| 7.5 | Space Efficiency | 182 |
| 7.6 | Estimation | 184 |
| 7.7 | Summary | 187 |
| 8 | Portability | 189 |
| 8.1 | Language | 190 |
| 8.2 | Headers and Libraries | 196 |
| 8.3 | Program Organization | 198 |
| 8.4 | Isolation | 202 |
| 8.5 | Data Exchange | 203 |
| 8.6 | Byte Order | 204 |
| 8.7 | Portability and Upgrade | 207 |
| 8.8 | Internationalization | 209 |
| 8.9 | Summary | 212 |
| 9 | Notation | 215 |
| 9.1 | Formatting Data | 216 |
| 9.2 | Regular Expressions | 222 |
| 9.3 | Programmable Tools | 228 |
| 9.4 | Interpreters, Compilers, and Virtual Machines | 231 |
| 9.5 | Programs that Write Programs | 237 |
| 9.6 | Using Macros to Generate Code | 240 |
| 9.7 | Compiling on the Fly | 241 |
| Epilogue | 247 | |
| Appendix: Collected Rules | 249 | |
| Index | 253 |
Edition Notes
Copyright Date |
1999 |
Classifications
Dewey Decimal Class |
005.1 |
Library of Congress |
QA 76.6 K3 |
The Physical Object
Format |
Paperback |
Number of pages |
288 |
Contributors
- Author
Rob Pike
ID Numbers
Open Library |
OL7408124M |
Internet Archive |
practiceprogramm00kern |
ISBN 10 |
020161586X |
ISBN 13 |
9780201615869 |
Library Thing |
16835 |
Goodreads |
1032758
|
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