Code Reading

The Open Source Perspective

Diomidis Spinellis

496 pages, parution le 27/05/2003

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Résumé

If you are a programmer, you need this book.

You've got a day to add a new feature in a 34,000-line program: Where do you start? Page 333 How can you understand and simplify an inscrutable piece of code? Page 39 Where do you start when disentangling a complicated build process? Page 167 How do you comprehend code that appears to be doing five things in parallel? Page 132 You may read code because you have to--to fix it, inspect it, or improve it. You may read code the way an engineer examines a machine--to discover what makes it tick. Or you may read code because you are scavenging--looking for material to reuse.

Code-reading requires its own set of skills, and the ability to determine which technique you use when is crucial. In this indispensable book, Diomidis Spinellis uses more than 600 real-world examples to show you how to identify good (and bad) code: how to read it, what to look for, and how to use this knowledge to improve your own code.

Introduction.
Advanced C Data Types.
C Data Structures.
Advanced Control Flow.
Tackling Large Projects.
Coding Standards and Conventions.
Documentation.
Architecture.
Code-Reading Tools.
A Complete Example.

Appendix A. Outline of the Code Provided.
Appendix B. Source Code Credits.
Appendix C. Referenced Source Files.
Appendix D. Source Code Licenses.
Appendix E. Maxims for Reading Code.

L'auteur - Diomidis Spinellis

is a four-time winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. He has been developing the techniques presented in this book since 1985 while writing and maintaining more than 250,000 lines of code for a number of innovative and award-winning commercial and open-source projects. He received his M.Eng. in software engineering and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of London's Imperial College. Currently he is an assistant professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Diomidis Spinellis
Parution	27/05/2003
Nb. de pages	496
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	840g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780201799408
ISBN13	978-0-201-79940-8